[TUHS] Was the compressed dictionary used?

[arnold at skeeve.com]

Hi.

The paper on compressing the dictionary was interesting. In the day
of 20 meg disks, compressing a ~ 2.5 meg file down to ~ .5 meg is
a big savings.

Was the compressed dictionary put into use? I could imaging that
spell(1) at least would have needed some library routines to return
a stream of words from it.

Just wondering.  Thanks,

Arnold