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authorzuntum <zuntum@pkgsrc.org>2001-10-31 22:52:58 +0000
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+The Dictionary Server Protocol (DICT) is a TCP transaction based
+query/response protocol that allows a client to access dictionary
+definitions from a set of natural language dictionary databases.
+
+dictd(8) is a server which supports the DICT protocol.
+
+dictzip(1) is a compression program which creates compressed files in the
+gzip format (see RFC 1952). However, unlike gzip(1), dictzip(1) compresses
+the file in pieces and stores an index to the pieces in the gzip header.
+This allows random access to the file at the granularity of the compressed
+pieces (currently about 64kB) while maintaining good compression ratios
+(within 5% of the expected ratio for dictionary data). dictd(8) uses files
+stored in this format.