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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> |