Date   : Mon, 23 Aug 1982 08:32:00-EDT
From   : Michael C Adler <MADLER@Mit-Mc>
Subject: SPELL V1.0

My program to check for spelling errors in WordStar document files has been
loaded to MC.  This program will compare each word in a text file to the
dictionary (dictionary was compiled by William Ackerman (WBA@XX)) and
mark unfound words with a null character.  This character is recognized
by WS.  I suppose that it could be modified to mark with whatever character
you want to make SPELL compatible with other editors.

WARNING!!!  SPELL WILL ONLY RUN ON THE Z80.

The files are as follows:

AR59:CPM;SPELL  DOC    <-- Documentation for SPELL
         SPELL  MAC    <-- Spelling checker
        SPELL  COM
        SPELL  HEX     <-- All hex files created with the HEXIFY program on
                           MC.  According to Keith, they run correctly.
        DICCRE MAC     <-- Creates new dictionaries (not necessary for you)
        DICCRE COM
        DICCRE HEX
        DICT   DIC     <-- This is the dictionary.

To run spell, you ONLY need the files SPELL COM and DICT DIC.  The dictionary
is about 56K with 39,000 words.  For more details, see the DOC file.
Because of the decoding necessary to read the dictionary, the faster the CPU
you have, the better the results.  Although my 2mhz plods at times, it is not
all that bad (2.5 minutes for 6 pages.  probably won't increase too much more.)

-Michael

P.S.  Bug reports/suggestions gladly accepted.