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Not a member? You should Sign up. Already have an account? Log in. To make the experience fit your profile, pick a username and tell us what interests you. We found and based on your interests. Choose more interests. This project was created on 05/08/2015 and last updated 9 years ago. The lossy text compressor consists of a Perl script and accompanying thesaurus. On startup, the script opens the thesaurus file, and constructs a hash of "word" to "shortest synonym of that word". Some words are filtered out, e.g. abbreviations and 2-letter synonyms, because those don't meet quality standards. After this is simple substitution of every word in the supplied text. This should result in a reduction of file size, while still

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