Dispress

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  dispress vt. [contraction of `Dissociated Press' due to eight-character
     MS-DOS filenames] To apply the {Dissociated Press} algorithm to a block
     of text. The resultant output is also referred to as a 'dispression'.