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6 dictunformat - create a raw database file from a .dict and .index file
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9 dictunformat [OPTIONS] index_filename
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12 dictunformat takes a dictionary index file as a parameter and a dictio‐
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14 to create a DICT database by dictfmt -t. This may be useful if it is
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20 --help displays a usage message and exits.
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30 dictunformat was written by Aleksey Cheusov <vle@gmx.net>.
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39LINUX January 23, 2003 DICTUNFORMAT(1)