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authorSimon Perreault <nomis80@videotron.ca>2001-05-08 20:08:17 +0000
committerSimon Perreault <nomis80@videotron.ca>2001-05-08 20:08:17 +0000
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Added the description of frcode, code, and bigram.
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</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>