in reply to Test::Spelling on Windows

Hi Herkum,

You may want to look at the windows port of aspell.
From the documentation:

"set_spell_cmd($command)

If the spell program has a different name or is not in your path, you can specify an alternative with set_spell_cmd. Any command that takes text from standard input and prints a list of misspelled words, one per line, to standard output will do. For example, you can use aspell -l."

You may want to take note that (apparently) for some versions of aspell it’s 'aspell list' and not 'aspell -l'

Hope this helps.

Martin

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Re^2: Test::Spelling on Windows
by Herkum (Parson) on May 09, 2006 at 14:43 UTC

    I have looking at and have installed 'aspell'. Everything you have said is right as far as I can tell. I even went back to my Linux box and lo-behold, the spell utility is just a link to 'aspell -l --mode=none'(where Test::Spelling works just fine).

    However, I tried to use 'aspell -l' on Windows and it is just sits there. Evidently there seems to be some sort of incompability between the *NIX implementation and the Windows implementation how it handles getting input from STDIN.

    Update: I found out that version 0.10 has this bug. This also happened to be the version that I had installed by ppm. I went installed a more current version off of cpan and it was fixed!

    Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!