Spell checking in DrRacket for Windows

[Rebelsky, Samuel]

Dear Racket Community,

One of my students is running DrRacket on Windows and getting a strange error message when they try to use the spell checker. They report "It says something about needing ispell or aspell. But when I install aspell, it still doesn't work."

I'm on a Mac and don't encounter the same roblems. And I'll admit that I don't use Windows. Does anyone have a recommendation on how to solve this problem? My quick Web search didn't reveal anything. (The student didn't like my suggestion that they install Linux on their computer and use the DrRacket on Linux.)

Thanks!

-- SamR

Samuel A. Rebelsky - He/Him/His (http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~rebelsky/pronouns.html)
Professor and Chair of CS, Grinnell College

[Robby Findler]

Two thoughts: after installing ispell, did they restart DrRacket? In their shell, when they install ispell, what path is located at? (The second question is because the normal way one starts up DrRacket, it does not inherit the PATH settings that one gets in the Terminal window, so DrRacket has to have a list of likely places to look and it may be missing one or two or a dozen for all I know. :)

Robby

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