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notbob <notbob@nothome.com> writes:

> > On Windows, I'm betting the path to ispell starts with a drive letter
> > followed by a colon.  In any event, ispell needs to be in your exec-path
> > 
> > (add-to-list 'exec-path "c:/home/site/ispell")
> 
> Uhmmm...  don't forget those are backslashes... c:\home\site\ispell

It is safer to use forward slashes. Otherwise you need to remember to
escape those backslashes inside strings...  "c:\\home\\site\\ispell".