Ispelll and e-mail (or any apps)

[JJ Neff]

Remember that in Uni* land apps are as small as possible by nature and each app
uses another app to make it do more.  THis is the nature of unix so Ispell is
the spell checker for a LOT of software, if it is in the PATH then it can be
started by any app.

TO have Ispell get called from sylpheed you 1st must have ispell installed. 
Check using urpmq (if in mandrake) or rpm -qa |grep ispell.

Install using a graphical tool or urpmi ispell or apt-get install ispell.

Once its installed read the man pages !  also do a "which ispell"  if ispell
comes back it's in your path, if you get an error then it's not in the path. 
to see your current path type " echo $PATH"  and you will see your path.  the
path is the default locations that teh shell will look for an executable you
type at the command line.  IF You've noticed you sometimes put a file you want
to execute in yor home dir and when you type runme.bin nothing happens or you
get an error.  You need to type " ./runme.bin"  to point the shell to your
current dir because by default it will only look in the directories listed in
the PATH.  

To change your PATH you edit files (surprise!).  the easiest IMHO, is .bashrc
in your home directory (if you use bash and your distro doesn;t have some other
proprietary setup tool).

just add

PATH=$PATH;/location/of/new/software
export PATH

the $PATH above adds teh current path and appends whatever else you added after
it.  NOTE you may not want your new path to come after it but WHY you may not
is an exercise left up to the reader.

JJN

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