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