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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 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.
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