.TH DICTFMT_INDEX2WORD 1 "January 23, 2003" "LINUX" "Linux User's Manaul"
.SH NAME
dictfmt_index2word \- Creates a .word index file from a 
.B DICTD
database .index file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dictfmt_index2word
.I [OPTIONS] 
.B [index_file]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B dictfmt_index2word
creates a word index file on stdout for the index file given on stdin or the
command line.  A word index file indexes each subword from the
multi-word headwords of the .index file, to the underlying .dict file.
A word index file is usually named <basename>.word, but this is not
mandatory as long as the proper name is used in the
.B dictd
configuration file. 
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B --help
displays a usage message and exits
.TP
.BI --locale " locale"
use locale for sorting the .word file. If this option is omitted, the 
default locale "C" is used.
.TP
.B index_file
the .index file to be converted.
.SH AUTHOR
.B dictfmt_index2word
was written by Aleksey Cheusov <vle@gmx.net>.
.br
This manual page was written by Robert D. Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR dictd (8),
.BR dictfmt (1),
.BR dictfmt_index2suffix (1)