On 2013-09-20, jim beam > wrote:
> On 09/19/2013 08:22 PM, Brent wrote:
>> On 2013-09-20, T0m $herman > wrote:
>>> On 9/19/2013 9:59 PM, Brent wrote:
>>>> slrn, at least the ancient version I use, does not have a spell checker.
>>>> Neither does this ancient text editor. All terminal based stuff. And
>>>> honestly you're not worth the time. If anything, consider the typos
>>>> and spelling errors stereotypical proof of my background.
>>>
>>> Technical writing a lost skill?
>>>
>>> But what do I know - just because I get paid to edit engineering reports?
>>
>> Just the stereotype that engineers can't spell worth a damn. I have
>> word processors and other things with real time spell checking for
>> serious things.
>
> yet again dags. you'll see that slrn has a spell check invocation.
> it's very simple. but you're TOO ****ING STOOOOOPID TO DO IT EVEN WHEN
> POINTED OUT!

Not the version I use, dumb****.
Here's the documentation for a version newer than I use.
http://slrn.sourceforge.net/docs/slrn-manual.html

Why don't you point it out.

Machine is old. I have better things to do than **** around to update
the entire OS and install all the packages so it accepts newer versions
of the same software just to get a spell checker to please you.