Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!vsi!friedl
From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: unix 'spell'
Summary: Not on Sys V
Message-ID: <993@vsi.COM>
Date: 5 Jan 89 20:37:27 GMT
References: <197660@hrc.UUCP> <983@vsi.COM> <11481@reed.UUCP>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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In article <197660@hrc.UUCP>, dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel) writes:
> 
> I need to be able to find out what are all the words available in the
> hlista compressed spell file. But how do I do it???

In article <11481@reed.UUCP>, alexis@reed.UUCP (Alexis Dimitriadis) writes:
> cat /usr/dict/words
> 
> (if you have it)

For you BSD-ers, System V went to a hashed dictionary format, one
that probably made it run a lot faster.  On many machines (my
3B2, at least), there is no longer any /usr/dict/words :-(.  This
was probably done for security so that people won't use it to
crack the password file :-).

     Steve

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