diff -ur orig/cracklib26_small/util/mkdict cracklib26_small/util/mkdict
--- orig/cracklib26_small/util/mkdict	Fri Jul  9 22:23:03 1993
+++ cracklib26_small/util/mkdict	Sat Apr  4 22:31:45 1998
@@ -14,7 +14,14 @@
 SORT="sort"
 ###SORT="sort -T /tmp"
 
-cat $* |
+### Use zcat to read compressed (as well as uncompressed) dictionaries.
+### Compressed dictionaries can save quite a lot of disk space.
+
+CAT="gzip -cdf"
+###CAT="zcat"
+###CAT="cat"
+
+$CAT $* |
 	tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' |
 	tr -cd '\012[a-z][0-9]' |
 	$SORT |