I am trying to get aspell to work for me.

I have tried this:

-sh-4.1$ /usr/bin/aspell -a -lang=en_US < dead.letter
WARNING: Unable to enter Nroff mode: Unknown mode: "nroff".
Error: No word lists can be found for the language "ang".

So I thought well maybe the dictionary is not installed:

-sh-4.1$ aspell dump dicts
en
en-variant_0
en-variant_1
en-variant_2
en-w_accents
en-wo_accents
en_CA
en_CA-variant_0
en_CA-variant_1
en_CA-w_accents
en_CA-wo_accents
en_GB
en_GB-ise
en_GB-ise-w_accents
en_GB-ise-wo_accents
en_GB-ize
en_GB-ize-w_accents
en_GB-ize-wo_accents
en_GB-variant_0
en_GB-variant_1
en_GB-w_accents
en_GB-wo_accents
en_US
en_US-variant_0
en_US-variant_1
en_US-w_accents
en_US-wo_accents


What am I missing?

Did you type the number '1' accidentally instead of the letter 'l'?

No I didn't. It is an L. Here is what I get if it were a one "1".

-sh-4.1$ /usr/bin/aspell -a --1ang=en_US < dead.letter
Error: The key "1ang" is unknown.


I did not notice the "ang". I don't believe I have gotten that before. I logged out/in and tried it again and this is what I have been getting:

-sh-4.1$ /usr/bin/aspell -a --lang=en_US < dead.letter
WARNING: Unable to enter Nroff mode: Unknown mode: "nroff".
Error: No word lists can be found for the language "en_US".


Thanks

No Guru on Aspell that can tell me what I am doing wrong?

I think I missed something onbvious. Shouldn't the "lang" optiom have two dashes before it i.e. "--lang="?

It does.


-sh-4.1$ /usr/bin/aspell -a --lang=en_US < dead.letter
WARNING: Unable to enter Nroff mode: Unknown mode: "nroff".
Error: No word lists can be found for the language "en_US".