[Aspell-user] Re: Aspell-user Digest, Vol 93, Issue 1

[Derek Roff]

One option for entering the "aspell create master..." Unix command is 
to use Terminal.app, which is in the Utilities folder, within the 
Applications folder.  Launching (double-clicking) the Terminal.app 
program will open a window, into which you can type Unix commands.

If I understand correctly, you are running Mac OS 10.4.5.  I would 
recommend that you make the free upgrade to 10.4.11 and apply all the 
security and other patches.  There were a lot of important fixes and 
enhancements between 10.4.5 and 10.4.11.  The current version of Aspell 
is 0.60.6.

You might find some useful guidance on installing and using Aspell for 
Mac on one of the websites linked below:

<http://aspell.darwinports.com/>
<http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/MacSpelling>
<http://docs.moodle.org/en/Configuring_aspell_on_Mac_OS_X>

Good luck,

Derek


> I am new to Aspell, so please bear with my question:
>
> from a post I learned that to create a dictionary I must write
> $ aspell create master --lang=lang_code path/dict_name < wordlist
>
> Now, where do I write it?
>
> I downloaded the cocoAspell and installed it with some dictionaries;
> I downloaded also aspell-.33.7.1.tar.gz, but I dont know how to
> procede to create my own dictionary out of my word-list...
>
> I am on a PPC Mac (OS 4.5), with X11 installed.
>
> Suggestions welcome. Thanks
>
> Carlo



Derek Roff
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