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*                            COMPRESS                                *
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*                  COPYRIGHT 1983 EUGENE H. MALLORY                  *
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PROGRAM:
    COMPRESS - Compress input by encoding repeated characters.
USAGE:
    COMPRESS [<fid] [>>fid]
FUNCTION:
    Reads input and compresses the text to the output.  Repeated 
    strings of four or more characters are replaced by ^nC, where
    N is represented by A for 1, B for 2, etc. Runs longer than 26
    characters are encoded as several ^nC strings.
EXAMPLE:
    COMPRESS <FILE >FILET



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 Standard Input     |                           |   Standard Output
     TEXT           |                           |   COMPRESSED TEXT
------------------->|          COMPRESS         |----------------------->
                    |                           |
                    |                           |
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