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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....
• 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}...
• crunch: 1. vi. To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way.
  Connotes an essentially trivial operation that is nonetheless painful to perform....
• 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....
• 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....
• 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 your data - take all the 1's out!