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• 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....
• 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...
• crunch 1. vi. To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way.
  Connotes an essentially trivial operation that is nonetheless painful to perform....
• box: n. 1. A computer; esp. in the construction `foo box' where foo is some functional qualifier, like `graphics', or the name of an OS (thus, `UNIX box', `MS-DOS box', etc.
  ) "We preprocess the data on UNIX boxes before handing it up to the mainframe....
• lint: [from UNIX's `lint(1)', named for the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from programs] 1.
  vt. To examine a program closely for style, language usage, and portability problems, esp....
• cat: [from `catenate' via {{UNIX}} `cat(1)'] vt. 1.
  [techspeak] To spew an entire file to the screen or some other output sink without pause....
• 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....
• Good Thing: n.,adj. Often capitalized; always pronounced as if capitalized.
  1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice...