To see the extent of the space saving obtained by this prefix/suffix business, run the [BaseDic][Expand] menu in dictman.

It will create an ASCII text file that contains all words in the base dictionary currently loaded in the computer memory. User dictionary is simply an ASCII text file that contains one word per line. The words are alphabetically sorted for the ease of maintenance---you can edit this file directly using any text editor. jspell reads user dictionary line by line. If jspell encounters a space character (i.e., space, tab, carriage return, end of line etc.), then it ignores the rest of the line. If an illegitimate word is encountered during loading, then jspell exits with an error message.