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			     Merimee V 2.0.2
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DISCLAIMER : This README is *short* because I hate writting long stuff
and I know that people *hate* reading long stuff ;-)
More information is available via man pages.

The author of this software will not be responsible in any way
concerning conformity of this software. We will not be obliged to
repair any possible direct or indirect damage du to the use of his
software.


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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1) What is Merimee ?
2) What is the distribution licence ?
3) What does this package contain ?
4) What is dictionary database ?
5) How powerful is Merime ?
6) How to install ?
7) How to join the author - Bugs, suggestions, reports ?



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1) What is Merimee ?
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Merimee is package dealing with spelling check and correction. It
provides an interactive spelling checker / corrector and tools to
manage databases used as dictionaries.


2) What is the distribution licence ?
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Simply GPL. For more information, please consult the COPYING file.
Merimee 2.0 was written in Objective Caml. For more information about
this language and to get the development environment, please check
   http://pauillac.inria.fr/caml/


3) What does this package contain ?
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Basically, it provides :
  * merimee : the interactive corrector
  * build : a dictionary builder
  * dump : a dictionary dumper
  * verify : a tool to simply check (non interactive) if words in a
    text exist in the dictionary (i.e, a simple spelling checker,
    not a corrector)

  * cheat : a crossword cheater (give it word patterns, it will look
    for any matching words in the dictionary ;-)

  * crossgen : a not yet supported crossword generator (I left sources
    in the package, but I don't know why ;-)

For more informations, please consult man pages related to each
program.

I don't provide any dictionary inside this archive in order to keep it
small. You can get some aside, on my home page, or build them from
your own words list.


4) What is dictionary database ?
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Such files contain a set of words. A word is considered as misspelled,
if it doesn't appear in the used dictionary database.

So Merimee is an exact checker. Some old versions of checkers used
statistics in order to determine if a word was correctly spelled. So
in some cases, errors were found even if the word was correct, and in
some other cases no errors were found even if the word was
misspelled.

Dictionaries are generated with the command "build" from a sorted list
of words. Read the associated man page to get more information.


5) How powerful is Merime ?
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I don't know. Enough for my own usage ;-)


6) How to install ?
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First decompress the archive with
  tar xvzf merimee.tgz
or
  gzip -d merimee.tgz
  tar xvf merimee.tar

But if you are reading this file from inside the archive, may be you
already decompressed it :-)))

Then just type 'make'. Once all is built, you can put binary files
where you want. You can copy man pages (directory "man1") in your
/usr/man/ directory, with the command
  cp -R man1 /usr/man/


7) How to join the author - Bugs, suggestions, reports ?
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Francois PESSAUX (francois_pessaux@yahoo.fr)
http://francois.pessaux.perso.sfr.fr/
