topic Re: OpenVMS spellchecker in Operating System - OpenVMS

OpenVMS spellchecker

Brad Albertson — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 08:33:20 GMT

I am wondering if OpenVMS has a dictionary of sorts that can be used as a spellchecker. I am running version 7.3 on a Alpha DS15.

Re: OpenVMS spellchecker

Ian Miller. — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 12:29:18 GMT

There was the Vassar/DECUS Spell program and DECspell.
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/freeware/freeware50/decspell/

I guess the DECUS tapes are online somwhere.

Re: OpenVMS spellchecker

Hein van den Heuvel — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 13:02:57 GMT

There is a modest (40,000) word dictionary on each vms box:

SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB]VMS$PASSWORD_DICTIONARY.DATA;1

It is a single key indexed file, space padded 32 byte records.

Of course that does not make a spellchecker, but it could be a start.

fwiw,
Hein.

Re: OpenVMS spellchecker

Doug Phillips — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 13:14:06 GMT

Re: DECUS/SPELL

At Hunter Goatley's site,

http://vms.process.com/fileserv-software.html

you can find SPELL and SPELL_DICTIONARY

-Doug