[h-e-w] Emacsw32 and spell-checking and word completion

[C.Strobl]

dear eli,
there is no words-file at my windows xp system and with this little info about 
it you gave i have no chance to find it with google (search words: linux words 
or similiar gave no usefull results).
thanks for your help anyway
christian
 
but there are still a few not yet answered questions i have:
 
1) first of all:  is there no common specified way (f.g. anywhere in the emacs 
manual or emacs faq or wiki or ...) for windows users configuring emacs for 
spell-checking and word completion. i didn't find it.
 
2) maybe anybody else had the same problem with aspell and word completion, so 
i describe here my generall proceeding:
 
i have installed aspell according the very clear instructions from paul bowman
 
1. Locate and download pre-compiled 4 windows packages for aspell and
relevant dictionary from http://aspell.net/win32/

2. Run aspell installer then dictionary installer

3. add <install location>\Aspell\bin to PATH

4. add (setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell") to your .emacs

5. restart emacs
 
and then i have installed egrep according the  recommendation from eli zaretskji
 
1) install now grep for windows f.g  the unxutils 
(http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/)
 
2) add the bin-path (..\usr\local\wbin) to to the path-variable.
and now i get the follwing message running M-x ispell-complete-word:

byte-code: egrep error: egrep: /usr/dict/words: No such file or directory

thats my actual state. 

i have searched the internet for such a words-file, but i didn't find it. it 
would be very nice if you could give me instructions which a new emacs user 
without a great experience in linux or unix can understand
 
for example i tested the following line in the emacs-file, but i don't know if 
that a promising attempt anyway:
(setq-default ispell-alternate-dictionary  
"C:\Programme\Aspell\dict\en-only.rws") 
 
 
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Von: Eli Zaretskii [mailto:address@hidden
Gesendet: Sa 29.07.2006 17:52
An: Strobl, Christian
Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
Betreff: Re: AW: AW: AW: [h-e-w] Emacsw32 and spell-checking and word completion



> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:35:23 +0200
> From: <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> in deed what you write sounds for me a little bit like words from a crystal 
> ball. i am not an experienced linux/unix-user and i don't know what a 
> word-file is.

I didn't say ``a word-file'', I said the `words' file, a file whose
name is `words'.  Please look for such a file on your system, and if
it isn't there, install it in one of the ways I suggested.