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| author | Simon Perreault <nomis80@videotron.ca> | 2001-05-08 20:08:17 +0000 |
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| committer | Simon Perreault <nomis80@videotron.ca> | 2001-05-08 20:08:17 +0000 |
| commit | eb9c756a12b8cc61bb6721031d581ba3c442e9c1 (patch) | |
| tree | be0b9db339bb78f6ad4fa2ff82d8485ed3504dd6 | |
| parent | 99b5adf8435565971d9dff8d8f8b1aad1e56e1d9 (diff) | |
Added the description of frcode, code, and bigram.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@593 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
| -rw-r--r-- | appendixa/findutils-desc.xml | 27 |
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diff --git a/appendixa/findutils-desc.xml b/appendixa/findutils-desc.xml index 042644c04..e5a7164b0 100644 --- a/appendixa/findutils-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/findutils-desc.xml @@ -57,5 +57,32 @@ command on the list. </sect3> +<sect3><title>frcode</title> + +<para> +updatedb runs a program called frcode to compress the list of file names +using front-compression, which reduces the database size by a factor of +4 to 5. +</para> + +</sect3> + +<sect3><title>code</title> + +<para> +code is the ancestor of frcode. It was used in older-style locate databases. +</para> + +</sect3> + +<sect3><title>bigram</title> + +<para> +bigram is used together with code to produce older-style locate databases. To +learn more about these last three programs, read the locatedb.5 manual page. +</para> + +</sect3> + </sect2> |