spell is the standard English language spell checker for Unix, Plan 9, and Unix-like operating systems. Appearing in Version 6 Unix, spell was originally...
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Fettes Douglas SPELL, an organization that promotes the constructed language Ladin Dolomitan spell (Unix), a spell checker program William Spell, American...
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computers came into general use. SPELL, its algorithms and data structures inspired the Unix ispell program. The first spell checkers were widely available...
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file on Unix and Unix-like operating systems, and is simply a newline-delimited list of dictionary words. It is used, for instance, by spell-checking...
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Research Unix refers to the early versions of the Unix operating system for DEC PDP-7, PDP-11, VAX and Interdata 7/32 and 8/32 computers, developed in...
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In Unix-like computer operating systems, a pipeline is a mechanism for inter-process communication using message passing. A pipeline is a set of processes...
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Service) operating system for a PDP-7 in B. Unics eventually became spelled Unix. Bell Labs started the development and expansion of C based on B and...
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Douglas McIlroy (category Unix people)
best known for having originally proposed Unix pipelines and developed several Unix tools, such as echo, spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, and tr....
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Ispell (category Spell checkers)
license. Hunspell MySpell Pspell GNU Aspell "CTAN: Package ispell". ctan.org. Retrieved 3 February 2024. Official website Original unix spell, on which Ispell...
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Diff (redirect from Diff (Unix))
is called a "diff", or a patch, since the output can be applied with the Unix program patch. The output of similar file comparison utilities is also called...
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GNU Aspell (category Spell checkers)
software spell checker designed to replace Ispell. It is the standard spell checker for the GNU operating system. It also compiles for other Unix-like operating...
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Hack (video game) (redirect from Hack (Unix video game))
was released in 1987. Hack is still available for Unix, and is distributed alongside many modern Unix-like OSes, including Debian, Ubuntu, the BSDs, Fedora...
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Stephen C. Johnson (category Unix people)
years. He is best known for Yacc, Lint, spell, and the Portable C Compiler, which contributed to the spread of Unix and C. He has also contributed to fields...
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at Purdue University in the 1980s. The name is both recursive, and is Unix spelled backwards. It has been ported to many hardware platforms, including the...
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Pico (text editor) (category Unix text editors)
Pico (Pine composer) is a text editor for Unix and Unix-like computer systems. It is integrated with Pine and Alpine, email clients initially designed...
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running the Classic Mac OS (1985), AT&T UNIX PC (1985), Atari ST (1988), OS/2 (1989), Microsoft Windows (1989), SCO Unix (1990), Handheld PC (1996), Pocket...
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Text file (section Unix text files)
text file. In modern operating systems such as DOS, Microsoft Windows and Unix-like systems, text files do not contain any special EOF character, because...
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Vim (text editor) (category Unix text editors)
1988). "v15i037: Stevie, an "aspiring" VI clone for Unix, OS/2, Amiga". Newsgroup: comp.sources.unix. Usenet: [email protected]. Archived from the original...
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Mach (kernel) (section Unix pipes)
Mach was developed as a replacement for the kernel in the BSD version of Unix, not requiring a new operating system to be designed around it. Mach and...
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country code top-level domain for the Soviet Union su (Unix), the substitute user command Seismic Unix, a collection of seismic data processing tools Subscriber...
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List of operating systems (section Unix or Unix-like)
v4 UNIX Time-Sharing System v5 UNIX Time-Sharing System v6 MINI-UNIX PWB/UNIX USG CB Unix UNIX Time-Sharing System v7 (It is from Version 7 Unix (and...
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Z shell (category Unix shells)
The Z shell (Zsh) is a Unix shell that can be used as an interactive login shell and as a command interpreter for shell scripting. Zsh is an extended Bourne...
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word "root" spelled backwards, is an alternative superuser account in Unix-like operating systems, particularly BSD and variants. In Unix, it is traditional...
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Command-line completion (section Unix shells)
multiple possible completions, some command-line interpreters, especially Unix shells, will list all possible completions beginning with those few characters...
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software Adaptive routing, in networking Adobe Aero, an Adobe software ar (Unix), a Unix archive format and handling tool Augmented reality, an application of...
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Look up curse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A curse is a spell or incantation intended to harm. Curse(s) may also refer to: Curses! (film), a 1925...
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it. You place this in ~/Library/Application Support/TextWrangler/Unix Support/Unix Filters/. It should show in the #! menu. The Semware Editor: Auto...
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XEDIT (section PC and Unix adaptations)
key (PAK)], XEDIT is less interactive than many PC and Unix editors. For example, continuous spell-checking as the user types is problematic. MOHICANS SCRIPT...
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known for owning Unix operating system assets that had belonged to the Santa Cruz Operation (the original SCO), including the UnixWare and OpenServer...
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Systemd (category Unix process- and task-management-related software)
connection management, and event logging. The name systemd adheres to the Unix convention of naming daemons by appending the letter d. It also plays on...
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