jspell supports the use of "multiple user dictionaries" and the "file specific user dictionary" as explained in the

next section. II.1.3 Dictionary loading When jspell starts it looks for the default base dictionary, say base.dic, in the current directory, where the default dictionary name is defined in the configuration file jspell.cfg (as the 12th entry). If it finds one, then the base dictionary is loaded into the computer memory. Otherwise jspell continues searching base.dic in the jspell directory. If both searches fail, then jspell exits with an appropriate error message. You can override the default base dictionary name defined in jspell.cfg by the command line switch -bd for instance,