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Dispress Vt. [contraction Of `Dissociated Press' Due To Eight-character MS-DOS Filenames] To Apply The Dissociated Press Algorithm To A Block Of Text.
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dispress vt.
[contraction of `Dissociated Press' due to
eight-character MS-DOS filenames] To apply the Dissociated Press
algorithm to a block of text. The resultant output is also referred to
as a 'dispression'.
Related:
Dissociated Press n. [play on `Associated Press'
perhaps inspired by a reference in the 1950 Bugs Bunny cartoon "What's Up, Doc?...
banana problem: n. [from the story of the little girl who said "I know how to spell `banana', but I don't know when to stop"].
Not knowing where or when to bring a production to a close (compare {fencepost error})....
DP: /D-P/ n. 1. Data Processing. Listed here because, according to hackers, use of the term marks one immediately as a {suit}.
See {DPer}. 2. Common abbrev for {Dissociated Press}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
Character doesn't matter! (The Press)
HAKMEM /hak'mem/ n. MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972).
A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere....
dahmum /dah'mum/ n. [Usenet] The material of which protracted flame wars, especially those about operating systems, is composed.
Homeomorphic to spam....
pseudo /soo'doh/ n. [Usenet: truncation of `pseudonym'] 1.
An electronic-mail or Usenet persona adopted by a human for amusement value or as a means of avoiding negative repercussions of one's net....
banana problem n. [from the story of the little girl who said "I know how to spell `banana', but I don't know when to stop"].
Not knowing where or when to bring a production to a close (compare fencepost error)....
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....