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     * Changes from .28.2.1 to .28.3 (Nov 20, 1999)
     * Changes from .28.2 to .28.2.1 (Aug 25, 1999)
     * Changes from .28.1 to .28.2 (Aug 25, 1999)
     * Changes from .28 to .28.1 (July 27, 1999)
     * Changes from .27.2 to .28 (July 25, 1999)
     * Changes from .27.1 to .27.2 (Mar 1, 1999)
     * Changes from .27 to .27.1 (Feb 24, 1999)
     * Changes from .26.2 to .27 (Feb 22, 1999)
     * Changed from .26.1 to .26.2 (Jan 3, 1998)
     * Changed from .26 to .26.1 (Jan 3, 1998)
     * Changed from .25.1 to .26 (Jan 3, 1999)
     * Changes from .25 to .25.1 (Dec 10, 1998)
     * Changes from .24 to .25 (Nov 23, 1998)
     * Changes from .23 to .24 (Nov 8, 1998)
     * Changes from .22.1 to .23 (Oct 31, 1998)
     * Changes from .22 to .22.1 (Oct 27, 1998)
     * Changes from .21 to .22 (Oct 26, 1998)
     * Changes from .20 to .21 (Oct 13, 1998)
     * Changes from .11 to .20 (Oct 10, 1998)
     * Changes from .10 to .11 (Sep 12, 1998)
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                                 A. Changelog
                                       
                 Changes from .28.2.1 to .28.3 (Nov 20, 1999)
                                       
     * Fixed a bug that caused aspell to crash when spell checking words
       over 60 characters long.
     * Reworked ``aspell check'' so that
         1. You no longer have to hit enter when making a choice.
         2. It will now overwrite the orignal file instead of creating a
            new file. An optional backup can be made by using the -b
            option.
     * Fixed a few bugs in data.cc.
       
                 Changes from .28.2 to .28.2.1 (Aug 25, 1999)
                                       
     * Fixed the version number for the shared library.
     * Fixed a problem with undefined refrences when linking to the
       shared library.
       
                  Changes from .28.1 to .28.2 (Aug 25, 1999)
                                       
     * Fixed a bunch of bugs in the language and configuration classes.
     * Minor changed in the code so that it could compile with the new
       gcc 2.95(.1).
     * Changed the output of ``dump config'' so that default values are
       given the value "<default>". This means that the output can be
       used to created a configuration file.
     * Added notes on using aspell with VIM.
       
                   Changes from .28 to .28.1 (July 27, 1999)
                                       
     * Removed some debug output
     * Changed notes on compiling with gcc 2.8.* as I managed to get it
       to compile on my school account
     * Avoided included stdexcept in const_string.hh so that I could get
       to compile on my schools account with gcc 2.8.1.
       
                   Changes from .27.2 to .28 (July 25, 1999)
                                       
     * Provided an iterator for the replacement classes.
     * Added support for dumping and creating and merging the personal
       and replacement word lists.
     * Changed the aspell utility command line a bit, it now used popt.
     * Totally reworked aspell configuration system. Now aspell can get
       configuration from any of 5 sources: the command line, the
       environmental variable ASPELL_CONF, the personal configuration
       file, the global configuration file, and finally the compiled in
       defaults.
     * Totally reworked the language class in preparation for my new
       language code. See
       http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/aspell/international/ for more
       information of what I have in store.
     * Added some options to the configure script: --enable-dict-dir=DIR,
       --enable-doc-dir=DIR, --enable-debug, and --enable-opt
     * Removed some old header files.
     * Reoriginized the directory structure a bit
     * Made the text version of the manual pages slightly easier to read
     * Used the \url command for urls for better formating of the printed
       version.
       
                   Changes from .27.1 to .27.2 (Mar 1, 1999)
                                       
     * Fixed a major bug that caused aspell to dump core when used
       without any arguments
     * Fixed another major bug that caused aspell to do nothing when used
       in interactive mode.
     * Added an option to exit in Aspell's interactive mode.
     * Removed some old documentation files from the distribution.
     * Minor changes on to the section on using Aspell with egcs.
     * Minor changes to remove -Wall warnings.
       
                   Changes from .27 to .27.1 (Feb 24, 1999)
                                       
     * Fixed a minor compile problem.
     * Updated the section on using Aspell with egcs to it it more clear
       why the patch is necessary.
       
                   Changes from .26.2 to .27 (Feb 22, 1999)
                                       
     * Totally reworked the C++ library which means you may need to
       change some things in your code.
     * Added support for detachable and multiple personal dictionaries in
       the C++ class library.
     * The C++ class library now throws exceptions.
     * Reworked aspell ability to learn from users misspellings a bit so
       that it now has a memory. See section 3.1.1 for more information.
     * Upgraded autoconf to version 2.13 and automake to version 1.4 for
       better portability.
     * Fixed the configuration so the ``make dist'' will work. For now on
       aspell will be distributed with ``make dist''.
     * Added support to skip over URL's, email addresses and host names.
     * Added support for dumping the master and personal word list. You
       can now also merge a personal word list. Type aspell -help for
       help on using this feature.
     * Reorganized the source code.
     * Started using proper version numbers for the shared library.
     * Fixed a bug that caused a spell to crash when adding certain
       replacement pairs.
     * Fixed the problem with duplicate lines when exiting pipe mode for
       good.
       
                   Changed from .26.1 to .26.2 (Jan 3, 1998)
                                       
     * Fixed another compile problem. Hopefully this time it will really
       compile OK on other peoples machines.
       
                    Changed from .26 to .26.1 (Jan 3, 1998)
                                       
     * Fixed a small compile problem in as_data.cc.
       
                    Changed from .25.1 to .26 (Jan 3, 1999)
                                       
     * Fixed a bug that causes duplicates items to be displayed in the
       suggestion list for good. (If it still does it please send be
       email.)
     * Added the ability for aspell to learn form the users misspellings.
     * Library Interface changes. Still more to come....
     * Is now multiprocess safe. When a personal dictionary (or
       replacement list) is saved it will now first update he list
       against the dictionary on disk in case another process modified
       it.
     * Fixed the bug that caused duplicate output when used non
       interactively in pipe mode.
     * Dropped support for gcc 2.7.2 as the C++ compiler.
     * Updated the How Aspell Works (6) Chapter.
     * Added support for the ASPELL_DATA_DIR environmental variable.
       
                   Changes from .25 to .25.1 (Dec 10, 1998)
                                       
     * Fixed the version number so that Aspell reports the correct
       version number.
     * Changed the note on gcc 2.7.2 compilers to make it clear that only
       the C++ compiler can not be gcc 2.7.2, it is ok if the C compiler
       is gcc 2.7.2.
     * Updated the TODO list and reorganized it a bit.
     * Fixed the directory so that all the documentation will get
       installed in ${prefix}/doc/aspell instead of half of it in
       ${prefix}/doc/aspell and half of it in ${prefix}/doc/kspell.
       
                    Changes from .24 to .25 (Nov 23, 1998)
                                       
     * Total rework of how the main word list is stored. Start up time
       decreased to about 1/3 of what it was in .24 and memory usage
       decreased to about 2/3. (When used with the provided word list on
       a linux system). Also the format and default locations of the main
       word list data files changed in the process and the data is now
       machine dependent. The personal word list format, however, stayed
       the same.
     * Changed the scoring method to produce slightly better results with
       words like the vs. teh. And other simpler misspellings where two
       letters are swapped.
     * Fixed the very unpredictable behavior of the '*', '&', '@'
       commands in the pipe mode.
     * Added documentations for Aspell pipe mode (also known as ispell -a
       compatibility mode)
     * Added a bunch of Aspell specific extensions to the pipe mode and
       documented them.
     * Documented the to_soundslike and soundslike methods for the aspell
       class.
     * Changed the scoring method to produce better results for words
       like ``fone'' vs ``phone'' and other words that have a spelling
       that doesn't directly relate to how the word sounds by using the
       phoneme equivalent of the word in the scoring of it.
     * Added the to_phoneme and have_phoneme methods to the SC_Language
       class.
     * Added the to_phoneme method to the aspell class.
     * Added the framework for being able to learn from the users
       misspelling. Right now it just keep a log of replacements.
     * Redid stl_rope-30.diff. For some reason the version of patch on my
       system refused it.
     * Rewrite of the ``Using as a replacement for Ispell'' section and
       added the run-with-aspell utility as a replacement of the old
       method of mapping Ispell to Aspell.
     * Fixed a bug that caused duplicate words to appear in the
       suggestion list.
       
                     Changes from .23 to .24 (Nov 8, 1998)
                                       
     * Fixed my code so that it can once again compile with g++ 2.7.2.
     * Rewrote the How It Works chapter.
     * Rewrote the Requirement section and added noted on compiling with
       g++ 2.7.2.
     * Added a To Do chapter.
     * Added a Glossary and References chapter.
     * Other minor documentation improvements.
     * Internal code documentation improvements.
       
                   Changes from .22.1 to .23 (Oct 31, 1998)
                                       
     * Minor documentation fixes.
     * Changed the scoring strategy for words with 3 or less letters.
       This cut the number of words returned for these roughly in half.
     * Expanded the word list to also include american.0 and american.1
       from the Ispell distribution. It now includes english.0,
       english.1, american.0 and american.1 from the directory
       languages/english provided with Ispell 3.1.20.
     * Added a link to the location of the latest Ispell.el in the
       documentation.
     * Started a C interface and added some rough documentation for it.
       
                   Changes from .22 to .22.1 (Oct 27, 1998)
                                       
     * Minor bug fixes. I was deleting arrays with delete rather than
       delete[]. I was suppressed that this had not created a problem.
     * Added a simple test program to test for a memory leak present on
       some systems. (Only debian slink at the moment.) See the file
       memleak-test.cc for more info.
       
                    Changes from .21 to .22 (Oct 26, 1998)
                                       
     * Major redesign or the scoring method. It now uses absolute
       distances rather than relative scores for more consistent results.
       See suggest.cc for more info.
     * Suggest code rewritten is several places however the core process
       stayed the same.
     * The suggest_ultra method temporally does nothing. It should be
       working again by the next release.
       
                    Changes from .20 to .21 (Oct 13, 1998)
                                       
     * Added documentation for aspell::Error
     * Changed the library name from libspell to libaspell. It should
       never have been libspell in the first place. Sorry for the
       incompatibility.
     * Added as_error.hh to the list of files copied to the include
       directory so that you can actually use the library outside of the
       source dir.
     * Fixed bug that caused a segmentation fault with words where the
       only suggestions was inserting a space or hyphen such as in
       ``ledgerline''.
     * Added the score method to aspell.
     * Changed the scoring method to deal with word when the user uses
       "f" in place of "ph" a lot better.
       
                    Changes from .11 to .20 (Oct 10, 1998)
                                       
     * Name change. Everything that was Kspell is now Aspell. Sorry, the
       name Kspell was already used by KDE and I didn't want to cause any
       confusion.
     * Fixed a bug that causes a segmentation fault when the HOME
       environmental variable doesn't exist.
       
                    Changes from .10 to .11 (Sep 12, 1998)
                                       
     * Overhaul of the SC_Language class
     * Added documentation for international support
     * Added documentation for the C++ library
     * Other minor bug fixes.
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