Dispress

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dispress
Usage: vt.
Derivation: Contraction of `Dissociated Press' due to eight-character MS-DOS filenames


dispress: vt.

[contraction of `Dissociated Press' due to eight-character MS-DOS filenames] To apply the Dissociated Press algorithm to a block of text. The resultant output is also referred to as a 'dispression'.

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Source: dispress, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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