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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