Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: unix 'spell'
Message-ID: <810@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 89 19:00:47 GMT
References: <197660@hrc.UUCP> <983@vsi.COM> <11481@reed.UUCP> <993@vsi.COM>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>For you BSD-ers, System V went to a hashed dictionary format, one
>that probably made it run a lot faster.

No, V7 used a hashed dictionary format; BSD uses the V7 version, and the
S5 version is similar.  V7 and BSD built it from "/usr/dict/words" (and
some other stuff, like the American/British lists).

Some release of S5 (or maybe some release prior to it) also eliminated
"/usr/dict/words", perhaps for the reason you stated.