Puff Vt. To Decompress Data That Has Been Crunched By Huffman Coding.

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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.

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