On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 02:39:13PM -0400, Ralph Boland wrote:
> I tried to run the spell checker.
> I complained that it couldn't find ispell
> until I gave it the correct path in my lyxrc file.
>
> It then ran but immediately crashed with the
> message
>
> "illegal option -- B"
>
> I assume that the problem is that I am running
> an old version of ispell (time stamp is Nov 1993)
Yes. That's the problem:
[kayvan@satyr]$ ispell --help
Usage: ispell [-dfile | -pfile | -wchars | -Wn | -t | -n | -x | -b | -S | -B | -C | -P
| -m | -Lcontext | -M | -N | -Ttype | -V] file .....
ispell [-dfile | -pfile | -wchars | -Wn | -t | -n | -Ttype] -l
ispell [-dfile | -pfile | -ffile | -Wn | -t | -n | -B | -C | -P | -m | -Ttype]
{-a | -A}
ispell [-dfile] [-wchars | -Wn] -c
ispell [-dfile] [-wchars] -e[1-4]
ispell [-dfile] [-wchars] -D
ispell -v
My ispell version:
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 10/10/95
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