[wplug] embarrasing question......Terminating Input from stdin

[John Harrold]

Sometime in September William Powell assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| As long as I have been using linux, I can't remember how to terminate 
| input when using stdin with a command line command.  For example, I want 
| to check spelling of a single word at the command line without putting 
| the word into a file and saving it.
| 
| [i,a]spell {enter}
| wordztobe
| czeched

Not the solution you are looking for, but the 'dict' command is pretty good
for spell checking and it also gives you definitions. I know it comes with
Redhat (dictd package) and with Debian (apt-get install dict).

Oh yeah it's ctrl+D to terminate input from stdin.

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