May 15, 2003

puff

vt.

To decompress data that has been crunched by Huffman coding. At least one widely distributed Huffman decoder program was actually named ‘PUFF’, but these days it is usually packaged with the encoder. Oppose huff, see inflate.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:33 AM

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