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Inflate Vt. To Decompress Or Puff A File. Rare Among Internet Hackers, Used Primarily By MS-DOS/Windows Types.
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inflate vt.
To decompress or puff a file. Rare among
Internet hackers, used primarily by MS-DOS/Windows types.
Related:
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....
LPT /L-P-T/ or /lip'it/ or /lip-it'/ n. 1. Line printer (originally Line Printing Terminal).
Rare under Unix, more common among hackers who grew up with ITS, MS-DOS, CP/M and other operating systems that were strongly influenced by early DEC conventions....
zip: [primarily MS-DOS] vt. To create a compressed archive from a group of files using PKWare's PKZIP or a compatible archiver.
Its use is spreading now that portable implementations of the algorithm have been written....
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....
wallpaper: n. 1. A file containing a listing (e.g., assembly listing) or a transcript, esp.
a file containing a transcript of all or part of a login session....
zip vt. [primarily MS-DOS] To create a compressed archive from a group of files using PKWare's PKZIP or a compatible archiver.
Its use is spreading now that portable implementations of the algorithm have been written....
LPT: /L-P-T/ or /lip'it/ or /lip-it'/ n. Line printer, of course.
Rare under UNIX, more common among hackers who grew up with ITS, MS-DOS, CP/M and other operating systems that were strongly influenced by early DEC conventions....
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....