[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trond Eivind Glomsr�d) writes:
> Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On 18 Jun 2000, Trond Eivind Glomsr�d wrote:
> >
> > > Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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...).
Has there been any advances in suffix compression?
[teg@halden i386]$ ls -l aspell-{cs,eo,pl}*
-rw-r--r-- 8 root root 30218438 Aug 30 18:13 aspell-cs-0.2-3.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 8 root root 10192261 Aug 30 18:14 aspell-eo-0.1-6.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 8 root root 16603359 Aug 30 18:14 aspell-pl-0.1-6.i386.rpm
[teg@halden i386]$
(and binary RPMS are actually compressed....)
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Trond Eivind Glomsr�d
Red Hat, Inc.
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