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[ILUG] [OT] Grammar & style checkers for email

[ILUG] [OT] Grammar & style checkers for email

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Sat Sep 4 19:02:07 IST 2004


On Thursday 02 September 2004 14:13, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> IIRC, there was a still older program called "style"
> which came with very early versions of Unix.
> Everyone made fun of it, which is probably why it disappeared,
> but I thought it was quite good.
> It used to say things like "You may have used too many indirect clauses".

Apologies for posting overcome by events -
my kmail outbox was blocked for several days by bad messages,
and now these have been removed my old mail is pouring out
like the clearing of a blocked drain/loo.

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland



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