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quasi <quasiabhi@yahoo.com> writes:

>Friends,
>	I have emacs 21.2.1 running on windows98SE.  I am just
>starting to use Emacs (due to Lisp programming).  When I try to
>spell-check I get "no such file or directory, ispell".  I have
>downloaded ispell and put it in the "/home/site/ispell/" directory.
>

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")

-- 
Mike Slass