(setq ispell-process

      (apply 'start-process

             "ispell" nil

             "/usr/bin/hunspell"

            "-a"

            '("-d" "en_US" "-i" "UTF-8")))

(accept-process-output ispell-process 3)

The accept-process-output function should return a non-nil value, because hunspell has output its banner (confirmed by associating a buffer to the process). However I can't get it to report anything but nil, and this both under Gnu/Linux and W32.

It doesn't work either if I set up a simple process filter.

Can someone enlighten me ?

Best regards,