From eb9c756a12b8cc61bb6721031d581ba3c442e9c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Perreault Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 20:08:17 +0000 Subject: Added the description of frcode, code, and bigram. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@593 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- appendixa/findutils-desc.xml | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) (limited to 'appendixa/findutils-desc.xml') 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. +frcode + + +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. + + + + +code + + +code is the ancestor of frcode. It was used in older-style locate databases. + + + + +bigram + + +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. + + + + -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf