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Re: spell and nano (was reply to cgf about gpl violation)


On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 11:46:34PM +1000, Gareth Pearce wrote:
>Mail-Followup-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
>From: "Gareth Pearce" <tilps at hotmail dot com>
>To: "Nano-devel list" <nano-devel at gnu dot org>
>Cc: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
>Subject: spell and nano (was reply to cgf about gpl violation)
>Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 23:46:34 +1000
>
>(crossing to cygwin incase it might inspire someone)
>> use nano; for the same reason the (webpage) nano binary uses PDcurses
>rather than
>> ncurses so no termcap files are needed.  I think the cygwin provided
>> version of nano is far superior as things like spell check would
>> actually work,
>This would be a theory - however since no one has ported and packaged spell
>to cygwin - it is not yet the (general) case.
>
>Regards,
>Gareth - cygwin nano packager.
>(PS: Waiting for cgf's supprised look - since nano-devel's Chris complied
>immediately - or at least is trying too...)

I'm very gratified at the response and indicated as much in my response
to nano-devel.

cgf

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