spellin

[Jim Diamond]

I would like to create my own hashed word list (analogous to
hlista and hlistb) for use with the spell(1) program on a 3130.
While the man page for spell (and hashcheck and spellin and hashmake)
does not explicitly mention how to do this, it would seem that
part of this task involves something like
	cat <file> | hashmake | spellin <n>
where <n> should be the number of words in <file>.
But even attempting
	echo dog | hashmake | spellin 1
seems beyond spellin's capabilities: after sitting and thinking for
about 20 CPU seconds, it crashes with a segmentation violation.

Is there anyone out there who would admit to knowledge about how
this version of spellin should really work?

Thanks.

			Jim Diamond
			zsd at pig.drea.dnd.ca