compo n.
[demoscene] Finnish-originated
slang for `competition'. Demo compos are held at a demoparty. The usual protocol is that
several groups make demos for a compo, they are shown on a big
screen, and then the party participants vote for the best one.
Prizes (from sponsors and party entrance fees) are given.
Standard compo formats include intro
compos (4k or 64k demos), music compos, graphics compos, quick
demo compos (build a demo within 4
hours for example), etc.
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compress [Unix] vt.
When used without a qualifier, generally refers to crunching of a file using a particular C
implementation of compression by Joseph M. Orost et al. and
widely circulated via Usenet; use of
crunch itself in this sense is rare
among Unix hackers. Specifically, compress is built around the
Lempel-Ziv-Welch algorithm as described in "A Technique for High
Performance Data Compression", Terry A. Welch, "IEEE Computer",
vol. 17, no. 6 (June 1984), pp. 8-19.