Re: sa-lean --dump data

[Theo Van Dinter <fe...@kluge.net>]

[redirecting to -users since it's not a development question]

On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 07:17:25AM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
> This command used to display tokens. Now it displays just numbers. Is 
> there any way to get the text back? This used to be interesting to look 
> at every now and then for rule ideas.

In 3.0?  No, the tokens are now hashed and truncated to be a fixed length.
This gives several benefits including performance, but means that you
don't have a direct correlation to the actual token data anymore.

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