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JSPELL 2.11 (Release date: Oct.21, 1998)
Copyright 1993-1998 by Joohee Jeong
Email: jhjeong@bigfoot.com
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Contents
o Introduction
o Features
o Installation and configuration
o Licensing and distribution
o Recent changes
o Disclaimer
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Introduction
JSPELL is an ASCII file spelling checker.
JSPELL used be a shareware. But it is now a freeware.
I may write and release JSPELL for Windows as shareware
some time in the future. But I do not know when. For the paid
registered users of DOS versions of JSPELL, the registration key
for the Windows version will be freely sent by email.
I have added a feature which may be quite useful in replying
email messages. Please refer to the end of this file.
On-line help file jspell.hlp has not been updated. I could not
update this file because I have lost the source code for generating
it. But the only place that needs updating in the on-line help is
the contact information of the author, which is given above.
I am not going to add any feature to DOS version of JSPELL, but
I am willing to fix any (serious) existing bug. Please report
any bug to jhjeong@bigfoot.com. (Well, I have not received any
bug report for several years. So perhaps there is not a bug
in JSPELL anymore.)
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Features
o Ease of use: Mouse support and on-line help.
o Speed: Fast in loading dictionary, spotting misspelled words,
and finding suggestions for nearly misspelled words.
o Dictionary: Multiple user dictionaries, file specific
dictionary, and an accompanying dictionary manager.
o Undo: Up to 400 steps
o Network support: Each user can have his/her own configuration
and personal dictionary while sharing the executables and
the base dictionary with other users.
o TeX support: Versatile and user configurable.
o Ignoring specific lines (e.g., starting with ">"): This feature
is useful in spell-checking replies to email messages.
o Foreign character support: extended ASCII character or
TeX commands (e.g., G\"odel, Erd\H{o}s)
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Installation and configuration:
Prepare a "jspell directory", say C:\JSPELL, by the DOS command
mkdir C:\JSPELL
and copy all JSPELL files into this directory. Then C:\JSPELL
should contain the following 9 files
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filename description
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00readme.txt this file
base.dic English word list
dictman.exe the dictionary manager executable
jspell.cfg configuration
jspell.exe the spell checker executable
jspell.hlp help message file
jsptex.cfg TeX configuration
manual.txt manual
sample.txt sample text for a test drive
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In order to be able to run JSPELL (and DICTMAN) in any directory,
either add C:\JSPELL to your PATH or put two batch files
JSPELL.BAT and DICTMAN.BAT into one of your directories in PATH.
The content of the batch files jspell.bat and dictman.bat should
look like
@echo off
C:\JSPELL\jspell.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
and
@echo off
C:\JSPELL\dictman.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
respectively.
The default configuration of JSPELL is set to VGA and AT-keyboard.
Also we assume that you work under the plain-vanilla English DOS
environment. If your computer's configuration and/or environment
is different from this, then you will need to read (Section I.4)
of the documentation file manual.txt. If you use non-English DOS,
for instance the DOS box in Korean Windows 95, then the screen
will surely look ugly. In this case, use the command
chcp 437
to get into English mode. To return to Korean mode, use
chcp 949
If you are going to run JSPELL under a networked environment,
then please read (Appendix A.) of manual.txt to complete the
installation.
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Licensing, distribution and registration
This version of JSPELL is free software.
You may freely distribute this version of JSPELL, unmodified in
its entirety to others who are interested in this software.
You may use any file compressor/archiver (e.g, zip,
arc, zoo etc.) in distributing this software under the provision that
the first 5 letters of the filename are JSPEL. However, you may not
modify, alter, reverse engineer this software in any ways.
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Recent changes
Version 2.01: (Nov.16, 1993)
Bug fix: couldn't spell-check files in a different drive
Version 2.02: (Nov.30, 1993)
Bug fix:
(i) [BaseDic][Count] in dictman didn't work for the
input `*'.
(ii) A minor bug in [UserDic][Read] in dictman (for very
large files)
Version 2.02c: (Jan.12, 1994)
Bug fix: A long session of JSPELL (several hundred user actions)
could hang the computer if the input file and the user
dictionary are very large.
Added features:
(i) When the edit row is highlighted, the <space> key works
as the [Ignore] command key only if the cursor is at the
right end. (So, Shift-<space> is no longer necessary.)
(ii) Shows the percentage of work done at the lower right corner.
(iii) ESC is no longer the [Ignore] command key even when the
edit row is blank.
Version 2.03: (Feb.22, 1994)
Member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (Feb.21, 1994)
Branding: JSPELL.EXE for shareware version and the registered
version are now identical. Registration is done by placing
a file JSPELL.REG, an ASCII file consisting of three lines:
registered name, registration number and the code. This makes
the low updating fee possible. (See Appendix B.Q5 of
MANUAL.DOC.)
Bug fix: Shift-<space> inserts a space even when the cursor is at
the right end of the word being edited.
Version 2.04: (Jun.7, 1994)
Bug fix: Alt-Shift-A, Alt-Shift-T didn't work at all. Undoing
[Add to user.dic] and [add To file.dic] didn't work
occasionally.
Version 2.05: (Jun.15, 1994)
Bug fix: Computer hangs when the input file contains the word
"super". This is because "super" is itself one of the
common prefixes and contains the common suffix "er".
Version 2.10: (Oct.20, 1998)
JSPELL is now freeware.
Added feature: JSPELL can be configured to ignore lines
that starts with a specified string. For example, JSPELL
can skip lines starting with >. This feature can be handy
when replying an email message.
Version 2.11: (Oct.21, 1998)
Bug fix: TeX-mode didn't work at all in version 2.10.
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DISCLAIMER: This software comes with absolutely no warranty. In
no event the author shall be liable for direct, indirect or con-
sequential damages, loses, costs, fees or expenses of any nature
or kind.
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