At 12:18 AM 2/18/00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Well... that is exactly what is happenning !!
>The dictionary is not being loaded. The function
>linit bails out saying "Illegal format hash table".
>Upon inspection of the code, there seems to be a
>assumption made about the sizes of char * and int
>to be same. The reads seem horribly confused. I am
>still trying to decipher the semantics of hashstrings,
>hashtbl and the format of the data in file
>american.hash. Is there someone reading this that
>can spend a couple of e-mails worth time to answer
>my questions so that I can clean up the code and fix
>the problem on my Linux/Alpha box?
If you're interested in pursuing this angle, it might be worth contacting
the ispell maintainer. I don't know how much buttering up it'd take, but
it's usually not *that* hard for an interested developer to get the original
author to brag about how their code works. ;-)
Paul
