Section: Aspell Abbreviated User's Manual (1)Updated: March 2010Local indexUp
NAME
prezip, preunzip, precat - prefix delta compressor for Aspell
SYNOPSIS
precat [-dzhLV] [-cfksSq] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
prezip
is a a prefix delta compressor. It is
not
a general purpose compressor and should only be used on sorted word
lists or other similar text files. It will likely
increase
the size of binary data.
If invoked as
prezip,
the default action is to compress. If invoked as
preunzip,
the default action is to decompress. If invoked as
precat,
the default action is to decompress to stdout.
If no file names are given then
prezip
will compress or decompress from the standard input to the standard
output. Short flags can be combined so that "-c -s" is the same
as "-cs".
OPTIONS
-h--help
display help
-d--decompress
force decompression
-z--compress
dorce compression
-L--license
display software license
-V--version
display version
-c--stdout
decompress to standard output
-f--force
force
-k--keep
keep input files
-s--sort
sort and remove duplicates before compressing
-S--nocwl
do not rename .wl suffix to .cwl (use .wl.pz instead)