May 15, 2003

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'.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:50 AM

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