The Aspell German 20030222 dictionary is generated from the igerman98-20030222 dictionary. The affix file used is combination of the affix file used for the German and Swiss dictionary found in the original package. A new flag was created when the original affix flag for the Swiss affix file was different from the German affix file. The source wordlist included affix information, however, affix compression IS NOT enabled since there is also a phonet file for the German language. If you wish to use affix compression simply add the line: affix-compress true to the file "de.dat". Kevin Atkinson 2004-11-03