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Huff V. To Compress Data Using A Huffman Code.
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huff v.
To compress data using a Huffman code. Various
programs that use such methods have been called `HUFF' or some
variant thereof. Oppose puff. Compare crunch,
compress.
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huff v. To compress data using a Huffman code. Various programs that use such methods have been called `HUFF' or some variant thereof.
Oppose puff. Compare crunch, compress....
puff vt. To decompress data that has been crunched by Huffman coding.
At least one widely distributed Huffman decoder program was actually named `PUFF', but these days it is usually packaged with the encoder....
puff: vt. To decompress data that has been crunched by Huffman coding.
At least one widely distributed Huffman decoder program was actually *named* `PUFF', but these days it is usually packaged with the encoder....
crunch 1. vi. To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way.
Connotes an essentially trivial operation that is nonetheless painful to perform....
crunch: 1. vi. To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way.
Connotes an essentially trivial operation that is nonetheless painful to perform....
compress: [UNIX] vt. When used without a qualifier, generally refers to {crunch}ing of a file using a particular C implementation of compression by James A.
Woods et al. and widely circulated via {USENET}...
compress [Unix] vt. When used without a qualifier, generally refers to crunching of a file using a particular C implementation of compression by Joseph M.
Orost et al. and widely circulated via Usenet; use of crunch itself in this sense is rare among Unix hackers....
Compress your data - take all the 1's out!
eyeball search n.,v. To look for something in a mass of code or data with one's own native optical senso
as opposed to using some sort of pattern matching software like grep or any other automated search tool....