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From: Richard Riley <rileyrg...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Flyspell error
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:13:06 +0200
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Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 18:53:01 +1000
>> From: sam jesse <rev...@gmail.com>
>> Cc: help-gnu-em...@gnu.org
>> 
>> do I need to install both?
>
> No.  aspell comes with a shell script called `ispell' to emulate Ispell.
>
>> I already installed aspell and the trace I am getting is:
>> 
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Searching for program" "no such
>> file or directory" "ispell")
>>   call-process("ispell" nil t nil "-vv")
>
> Maybe the shell script is not compatible with Windows.  Do you have an
> ispell.bat or ispell.cmd batch file as well?  If not, perhaps create a
> batch file that does what the `ispell' shell script does, and you
> should be set.
>
> (I don't use aspell, so I cannot help you if the above doesn't resolve
> the problem.)
>
>

I didnt see the whole thread, but does he have:

(setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell")


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