dispress

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dispress - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 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'.