Re: [aspell] Simply but effective Wordlist compression

[Kevin Atkinson]

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.

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Kevin Atkinson
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