<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Basic Usage - GNU Aspell 0.60.6.1</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="description" content="Aspell 0.60.6.1 spell checker user's manual."> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.8"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="prev" href="Support.html#Support" title="Support"> <link rel="next" href="Customizing-Aspell.html#Customizing-Aspell" title="Customizing Aspell"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- This is the user's manual for Aspell GNU Aspell is a spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell. It can either be used as a library or as an independent spell checker. Copyright (C) 2000--2011 Kevin Atkinson. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". --> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <p> <a name="Basic-Usage"></a> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Customizing-Aspell.html#Customizing-Aspell">Customizing Aspell</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Support.html#Support">Support</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="index.html#Top">Top</a> <hr> </div> <h2 class="chapter">3 Basic Usage</h2> <p>For a quick reference on the Aspell utility use the command <samp><span class="command">aspell --help</span></samp>. <ul class="menu"> <li><a accesskey="1" href="Spellchecking-Individual-Files.html#Spellchecking-Individual-Files">Spellchecking Individual Files</a> <li><a accesskey="2" href="Using-Aspell-as-a-Replacement-for-Ispell.html#Using-Aspell-as-a-Replacement-for-Ispell">Using Aspell as a Replacement for Ispell</a> <li><a accesskey="3" href="Using-Aspell-with-other-Applications.html#Using-Aspell-with-other-Applications">Using Aspell with other Applications</a> </ul> </body></html>