[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I wrote:
> > But why is it undocumented?
>
> Philippe Troin writes:
> > This file is in /usr/lib, it's an internal command. It's most likely
> > you'll never have to use it by hand. It's hence undocumented.
>
> Not a good reason. It should be documented somewhere, even if only with a
> line or two in the updatedb man page.
locatedb(5) has the following:
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. Front-compression
(also known as incremental encoding) works as follows.
- Hari
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