Re: [aspell] Simply but effective Wordlist compression

[Trond Eivind Glomsrød]

Kevin Atkinson <address@hidden> writes:

> On 18 Jun 2000, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
> 
> > Kevin Atkinson <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > Attached is an extremely simple but very effective program to compress a
> > > sorted word list.  The list can them be compressed even farther by bzip2
> > > or gzip.
> > 
> > Obvious question: Can this compressed wordlist still be used by
> > aspell, or do you need to decompress it first? Probably the first one,
> > as the second option is rather useless - and if so, and it works:
> > "Hurrah!" 
> 
> I am afraid not.  It is totally useless to aspell.  It Will save on
> CD-SPACE if wordlists are installed with an install script.

Would you save much more than by just bzipping it? Right now, the
dictionaries are huge (almost 25 MB for the Danish one...).
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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.