puff
<algorithm> 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.
 
Opposite: huff.
 
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(1996-10-16)
 
  
 
  
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