     The script dictunformat (provided with in the dictfmt package)
takes a dictionary index file as the parameter and a dictionary
database file on stdin and outputs a raw dictionary datbase on
stdout.  The raw database is formatted to use the -c5 option of
dictfmt. 

     This may be useful for making corrections or other changes to a
dictionary, or to convert a dictionary from one character encoding to
another. 

     dictunformat requires an uncompressed file as input.  Hoever,
most dictionaries are distributed as compressed (.dict.dz) files. One
convenient way to use dictunformat is:

dictzcat dictname.dict.dz | dictunformat dictname.index > dictname

Robert D. Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>, 15 March, 2003
