Spelling program broke on Sparc

[Dave Jones]

I wonder if someone can help me figure out what has happened to the
spelling checker program "spellin". I had some stuff rigged up to take my
local spelling list, merge it with the standard one, and then use the
combined list. I was happy with it. And nothing could possibly break,
because it was all based on a documented program called "spellin", and on
documented system files. Right? (Do I really look that naive? :-(  ) Well,
I recently got a new SPARC SLC, and my programs broke. Some files had been
moved around. (Why, why, why?) So I rigged my scripts to figure out
whether they were running with the files in the original places or the new
ones.  Still no dice.

The scheme was based around a program on the old machine, called
"spellin".  There is a program on the new machine called "spellin", but
apparently the two are different. (HATE it when that happens!) All I can
get the new one to do is to print out "illegal instruction".

There is a little fragment of documentation on the new machine about the
new "spellin" and about a new program called "hashmake", but it's too
sparse for me to make much sense of it.

Can anybody shed some light on this? In the meantime, I'm just using the
new "+" option to spell. It just removes words in the auxilary list from
the output of spell, but not words derived from those.

Here's what I've got:

spell:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#! /bin/csh -f

set arch="sun3"
if ( -x /bin/arch ) then
  set arch="`/bin/arch`"
endif

switch("${arch}")
  case sun3:
     /usr/bin/spell -d /u/djones/lib/hlista -s /u/djones/lib/hstop $*
  breaksw

  case sun4:
    /usr/bin/spell +/u/djones/lib/words $*
  breaksw

  default:
    echo "Spell: Unknown arch." "${arch}"
  breaksw
endsw

.............................................................................

learn_word:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#! /bin/csh -f
# Learn the correct spelling of a word or words.
# Creates and maintains files
#    /u/djones/lib/words   ... sorted text of words to supliment
#                               standard list
#    /u/djones/lib/hlista  ... suplimental and standard lists, merged
#                                and hashed
#    /u/djones/lib/words.temp  ... scratch file
#    /u/djones/lib/hlista.temp ... scratch file
# 
# I don't know why I need to make a copy of /usr/dict/hlista, but
# that's the only way I found to make it work. .. djones

# See also bad_word

set arch="sun3"
if ( -x /bin/arch ) then
  set arch="`/bin/arch`"
endif

switch("${arch}")
  case sun3:
    echo $* | tr ' ' '\012' >> /u/djones/lib/words
    sort -u /u/djones/lib/words > /u/djones/lib/words.temp
    mv /u/djones/lib/words.temp /u/djones/lib/words
    cp /usr/dict/hlista /u/djones/lib/hlista.temp
    /usr/bin/spellin /u/djones/lib/hlista.temp < /u/djones/lib/words > /u/djones/lib/hlista
    rm /u/djones/lib/hlista.temp
  breaksw

  case sun4:
    echo $* | tr ' ' '\012' >> /u/djones/lib/words
    sort -u /u/djones/lib/words > /u/djones/lib/words.temp
    mv /u/djones/lib/words.temp /u/djones/lib/words
  breaksw

  default:
    echo "Learn_word: Unknown arch." "${arch}"
  breaksw
endsw