sq(1) [opensolaris man page]

SQ(1)							      General Commands Manual							     SQ(1)

NAME

       sq, unsq - squeeze or unsqueeze a sorted word list

SYNOPSIS

       sq < infile > outfile

       unsq < infile > outfile

DESCRIPTION

       sq compresses a sorted list of words (a dictionary).  For example:
	      sort -u /usr/share/dict/words | sq | gzip -9 > words.sq.gz
       will compress dict by about a factor of 5.

       unsq uncompress the output of sq.  For example:
	      gunzip < words.sq.gz | unsq | sort -f -o words
       will uncompress a dictionary compressed with sq.

       The squeezing is achieved by eliminating common prefixes, and replacing them with a single character which encodes the number of characters
       shared with the preceding word.	The prefix size is encoded as a single printable character: 0-9 represent 0-9, A-Z represent 10-35, and a-
       z represent 36-61.

BUGS

       sq and unsq can only handle words of up to 256 characters.  The input must be sorted, and duplicates must be suppressed.

AUTHOR

       Mike Wexler

SEE ALSO

       compress(1), sort(1).

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WORDS(5)                                                     Linux Programmers Manual                                                     WORDS(5)

NAME

       french - a list of french words

DESCRIPTION

       /usr/share/dict/french is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per line.

FILES

       /etc/alternatives/dictionary  is  a  symbolic  link  to  a  /usr/share/dict/<language>  file.   /usr/share/dict/words is a symbolic link to
       /etc/alternatives/dictionary, and is the name by which other software should refer to the system word list.  See update-alternatives(8) for
       more information.

       The directory /usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages, with name of the language in English, e.g., /usr/share/dict/ameri-
       can-english and /usr/share/dict/danish contain respectively lists of English and Danish words if they exist.  Such lists  should  be  coded
       using the ISO 8859-1 character set encoding.

SEE ALSO

       ispell(1), update-alternatives(8), and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.

HISTORY

       The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of sources.

AUTHOR

       Word lists are collected and maintained by various authors.

Linux                                                              29 Sept 1998                                                           WORDS(5)