Re: what is frcode?

[Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu>]

jghasler@win.bright.net 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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