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Posted: **Tue Aug 16, 2011 7:17 am**

Hello.

DictUI (Windows standalone version)is a good tool to compress dsl files,its latest version developed in last year.
According to my tough test,some DSL dictionary fail to be compressed.No contact information is available on author's home page.

Therefore,I decide to turn to dictzip (commandline version).Being a Windows user,I can't find any commandline explanation about dictzip through google.
Furthermore,someone said there's pretty new version of dictzip.What a pity ,I don't know how to compile those strange files into Windows executable file.

DICTZIP source:http://sourceforge.net/projects/dict/files/dictd/

Question:

1.Can somebody teach me the detailed usage of dictzip commandline on Windows xp?
2.I'm wondering who can compile the latest new dictzip(Windows) ?

Sorry,I've no choice but come here to bother you programmer.From the searching on goole, I have to come to such conclusion that GD is more popular for Linux OS user than Windows.Personally, lack of information prevent the spread of GD among windows user.

Posted: **Tue Aug 16, 2011 11:14 am**

newcomer wrote:1.Can somebody teach me the detailed usage of dictzip commandline on Windows xp?

This is pretty straightforward: Open a command line window, change to the directory where the DSL dictionary is located and invoke:

Code: Select all: dictzip your_dictionary_name.dsl

That's it! (Naturally, dictzip.exe must be on your system PATH so that it can be found). Dictzip will compress the DSL file and create your_dictionary_name.dsl.dz. Please note that the original DSL file will be deleted. Which is what most users would want (there is no need to keep two versions of the dictionary). But if you'd like to preserve the original file, use -k option.

2.I'm wondering who can compile the latest new dictzip(Windows) ?

Good question. I wasn't able to do so quickly, there are some dependencies on other libraries, etc.

But I'm starting to think that maybe we should provide dictzip functionality right in GoldenDict itself to spare all the users the trouble dealing with command line

Posted: **Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:17 am**

I succeeded,thank you !
Are there any optional ? The whole set of optional are preferable.

Be careful about the filename.Space in the filename will fail the transformation.
I think this is the main reason why DICTUI missed. For example:

a b.dsl----------error

ab.dsl-----------pass

I can't agree more with you,integrating dictzip with GD and automatically transforming.

Posted: **Wed Aug 17, 2011 7:25 am**

Code: Select all: #>dictzip.exe -h dictzip 1.9.15 Copyright 1996-2002 Rickard E. Faith (faith@dict.org) Usage: dictzip [options] name -d --decompress decompress -f --force force overwrite of output file -h --help give this help -k --keep do not delete original file -l --list list compressed file contents -L --license display software license -c --stdout write to stdout (decompression only) -t --test test compressed file integrity -v --verbose verbose mode -V --version display version number -D --debug select debug option -s --start <offset> starting offset for decompression (decimal) -e --size <offset> size for decompression (decimal) -S --Start <offset> starting offset for decompression (base64) -E --Size <offset> size for decompression (base64) -p --pre <filter> pre-compression filter -P --post <filter> post-compression filter

Posted: **Mon Aug 22, 2011 4:16 am**

copy dictzip to c:/windows/system32 include 3 files:cygwin1.dll cygz.dll dictzip.exe you can find it in dictui folder or download it here:http://yonggun.tistory.com/49
then you can use dictzip command in cmd window.
dictzip xxxxxx.dsl
I'm sure it's works in windows7

Posted: **Thu Aug 25, 2011 7:40 am**

i don't understand why you have to resort to command line for that. i usually just drag and drop umcompressed dictionary files to the Dictzip executable to do the compression, whether it is in dsl format or dict format. sorry if i misunderstood something.

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