uncrunch
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]uncrunch (third-person singular simple present uncrunches, present participle uncrunching, simple past and past participle uncrunched)
- (computing, transitive) To decompress.
- 1986, Compute: Volume 8:
- Load (but do not run) the BASIC program you want to uncrunch.
- 1989, Ranjit Bhatnagar, “Saving Disk Space (was Re: Relying on ARP)”, in comp.sys.amiga (Usenet):
- Thus when you invoke the crunched version of emacs, for instance, it actually loads the uncruncher, which then loads and uncrunches the rest of emacs.
- 2002, Mark Blunden, “Temple District”, in alt.games.baldurs-gate (Usenet):
- Presumably, having uncrunched the data from the compressed archive, it's faster to reload the uncrunched version if it's needed again.
Usage notes
[edit]- Associated with the Commodore Amiga computer.