On 12/30/2008 6:24:32 PM, Peter Rejto wrote:
>
>Specifically, I would like to know how do you tell
>ASPELL.EXE which file to check for spelling.
>
>I also printed out the help message and this is what I
>got.
>
>[little]
Calling help this way:
C:\>"C:\Program Files\Aspell\bin\aspell.exe" --help
Aspell 0.50.3 alpha. Copyright 2000 by Kevin Atkinson.
Usage: aspell [options]
is one of:
-?|help display this help message
-c|check to check a file
-a|pipe "ispell -a" compatibility mode
-l|list produce a list of misspelled words from standard input
[dump] config dumps the current configuration to stdout
config prints the current value of an option
soundslike returns the soundslike equivalent for each word entered
filter passes standard input through filters
-v|version prints a version line
dump|create|merge master|personal|repl [word list]
dumps, creates or merges a master, personal, or replacement word list.
[options] is any of the following:
--conf= main configuration file
--conf-dir= location of main configuration file
--data-dir= location of language data files
--dict-dir= location of the main word list
--encoding= encoding to expect data to be in
--add|rem-filter= add or removes a filter
--mode= filter mode = none,url,email,sgml,tex
-e,--mode=email enter Email mode.
-H,--mode=sgml enter Html/Sgml mode.
-t,--mode=tex enter TeX mode.
--add|rem-extra-dicts= extra dictionaries to use
--home-dir= location for personal files
-W,--ignore= ignore words <= n chars
--[dont-]ignore-accents ignore accents when checking words
--[dont-]ignore-case ignore case when checking words
--[dont-]ignore-repl ignore commands to store replacement pairs
--jargon= extra information for the word list
--keyboard= keyboard definition to use for typo analysis
--lang= language code
--language-tag= deprecated, use lang instead
--local-data-dir= location of local language data files
-d,--master= base name of the main dictionary to use
--module=
--add|rem-module-search-order=
--per-conf= personal configuration file
-p,--personal= personal word list file name
--prefix= prefix directory
--repl= replacements list file name
-C|-B,--[dont-]run-together consider run-together words legal
--run-together-limit= maxium numbers that can be strung together
--run-together-min= minimal length of interior words
--[dont-]save-repl save replacement pairs on save all
--[dont-]set-prefix set the prefix based on executable location
--size= size of the word list
--spelling= no longer used
--[dont-]strip-accents strip accents from word lists
--sug-mode= suggestion mode
--add|rem-word-list-path= Search path for word list information files
-b|-x,--[dont-]backup create a backup file by appending ".bak"
--[dont-]reverse reverse the order of the suggest list
--[dont-]time time load time and suggest time in pipe mode
--keymapping= keymapping for check mode, one of aspell ispell
--add|rem-email-quote= email quote characters
--email-margin= num chars that can appear before the quote char
--add|rem-tex-command= TeX commands
--[dont-]tex-check-comments check TeX comments
--add|rem-tex-extension= TeX file extensions
--add|rem-sgml-check= sgml attributes to always check.
--add|rem-sgml-extension= sgml file extensions
gives additional info.
Pauli is using the "pipe mode" (-a).
Christian