.TH DICTFMT_INDEX2SUFFIX 1 "January 23, 2003" "LINUX" "Linux User's Manaul"
.SH NAME
dictfmt_index2suffix \- Creates a .suffix file from a 
.B DICTD
database .index file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dictfmt_index2suffix
.I [OPTIONS] 
.B [index_file]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B dictfmt_index2suffix
creates a suffix index file on stdout for the index file given on stdin or
the command line.  A suffix index file is the same as 
the  .index file except the characters in the headwords are reversed.  A
suffix index file is normally named <basename>.suffix, 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 .suffix 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_index2suffix
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_index2word (1)