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Cygwin - spell or ispell command not found

Hey there! So I'm just reading this book on using UNIX and Linux (which I like!), But I'm working on Cygwin because I don't have a Linux OS. I tried to use the command spell and ispell, but not found. I searched my main Cygwin folders, and there are some ELC and ispell filenames, but not a command associated with them or anything else. How to restore these commands? TIA!

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It is not installed by default, but a package is available there.

Run setup.exe, downloaded from cygwin.org, click until you see the list of packages, and then you can find ispell there. You can select it and let it know to install it, and it will automatically download and install it for you. Warning: it may take a little experimentation until you can figure out if setup.exe is really a terrible GUI.

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Install aspell (it is in the Text package) and you will also get the spell and ispell commands installed as part of the package. ispell is the "compatibility script" for aspell (for those of us who love ispell, I suppose).

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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/1341850/

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