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hobbit
n. 1. The High Order Bit of a byte; same as the {meta bit} or {high bit}. 2. The non-ITS name of vad@ai.mit.edu ...
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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
; use of
crunch
itself in this sense is rare among UNIX hackers. Specifically, compress is built around the Lempel-Ziv-Welch algorithm as described in "A Technique for High Performance Data Compression", Terry A. Welch, `IEEE Computer', vol. 17, no. 6 (June 1984), pp. 8-19.
