Russell Coker writes: > > Illegal format hash table /usr/lib/ispell/british.hash - expected magic2 0x9602, got 0x0 Could you please send me the output of the following commands: xxd -l 64 /usr/lib/ispell/british.hash ls -l /usr/lib/ispell/british.hash ls -Ll /usr/lib/ispell/british.hash cat /var/lib/ispell/british.compat Thanks, robert