spelling, was: Re: please help with bind 9.1.2

Janina Sajka janina at afb.net
Sat May 4 14:48:02 EDT 2002


Dear Professor:

Did you put the script on the blackboard? <grin>

Maybe I can't see it from the back row here? <bigger grin>

OK, I know you posted it some months ago, but that was a different semester and a different class, right?

PS: Is it on the web site? I rather think it should/could be.

On Sat, 4 May 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> Hi gang,
> I have never felt more like a retired school teacher than I have
> since this thread started! <smile>
> 
> I have found that using a spellchecker routinely makes its use a
> lot more tolerable than just using it once or twice to see if it
> works or not. It is a little like defragging a disk. If you only
> do it once a month or once a year it takes forever. But if you
> run it in an autoexec.bat file (remember those?) so it runs on
> every system startup, you hardly notice it at all.
> 
> I have configured my mail program to use an alternative editor
> implicitly (i.e., always, without my asking) and instead of
> specifying an actual editor, I specify a very simple script. That
> script first runs the editor I want to use, and immediately
> afterward, it runs the spell checker. So when I compose an email
> message and his the editor's exit key I find myself in the spell
> checker. I have learned to quit checking as soon as I get to any
> included messages.
> 
> In addition to satisfying my own anal retentive tendencies, the
> nice thing about a well spelled message is that the voice
> synthesizer behaves much much better.
> 
> Okay everybody, class dismissed!
> 
> Chuck
> 
> On Sat, 4 May 2002, Ann Parsons wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Now, old Bill, I fully admit that these isn't spelled like cheese,
> > even though it sounds like it ought to be.  However, unless there's an
> > extreme blooper like the poster who assured a budding concern that
> > their registry personnel must be on "autopilate", I think we can
> > interpret pretty well.  I do agree that folks should use spell
> > checkers, but since I don't myself, at least not within email msgs, I
> > can't throw any stones.  The walls of my house are made of glass.
> >
> > Ann P.
> >
> >
> 
> 

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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

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