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• 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....
• 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}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• 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....
• crunch: 1. vi. To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way.
  Connotes an essentially trivial operation that is nonetheless painful to perform....
• inflate vt. To decompress or puff a file. Rare among Internet hackers, used primarily by MS-DOS/Windows types.
• crunch 1. vi. To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way.
  Connotes an essentially trivial operation that is nonetheless painful to perform....
• dike: vt. To remove or disable a portion of something, as a wire from a computer or a subroutine from a program.
  A standard slogan is "When in doubt, dike it out"....
• pool: [from early IBM `Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On-Line', but this acronym is widely thought to have been contrived for effect] vt.
  To send files to some device or program (a `spooler') that queues them up and does something useful with them later....
• zero: vt. 1. To set to 0. Usually said of small pieces of data, such as bits or words (esp.
  in the construction `zero out'). 2. To erase; to discard all data from....