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15.2 Customizing the Dictionary

The spelling dictionary is a highly compressed file containing approimately 85,00015.1 words. A small program, spell_maint, it is included in the distribution to compress and uncompress the word list.

When compressing a list of words, you must make sure that the list is sorted!


2004-05-02