Re: [aspell] Simply but effective Wordlist compression

[Kevin Atkinson]

On 18 Jun 2000, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:

> > 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...).

It won't work on compiled dictionaries.  It only works on sorted words
lists.  In that case it does save a lot.  More will be saved by bziping
it.

BTW: Gzip does a better job of compressing sorted word lists than bzip2
does.  Bzip2 does better than gzip if it unsorted.  In fact for an english
word list the compression ratio was about the same for both a sorted and
unsorted list.  Bzip does a better job of compressing files that are
passed through by utility though.

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