If you really want to use soundex, either cvs update or use try this
patch.  You can tell the by the dates that this bug has been sitting there
for a long time -- I guess soundex is not widely used.

Index: soundex.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/swishe/swish-e/src/soundex.c,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -u -r1.2 soundex.c
--- soundex.c   12 Feb 2001 17:36:37 -0000      1.2
+++ soundex.c   20 Aug 2002 14:12:29 -0000
@@ -86,14 +86,14 @@
 #endif
 
        /* Make sure it actually starts with a letter  */
-       if(!isalpha((int)((unsigned char)word[0]))) soundXit();
+       if(!isalpha((int)((unsigned char)word[0]))) return soundXit();
 #ifdef _DEBUG
        /* Debug to console  */
        printf("isalpha, ");
 #endif
        
        /* Get string length and make sure its at least 3 characters  */
-       if((n = (int)strlen(word)) < 3) soundXit();
+       if((n = (int)strlen(word)) < 3) return soundXit();
 #ifdef _DEBUG
        /* Debug to console  */
        printf("=>3, ");


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Bill Moseley moseley@hank.org