uncrunch

uncrunch

English

Etymology

un- +‎ crunch

Verb

uncrunch (third-person singular simple present uncrunches, present participle uncrunching, simple past and past participle uncrunched)

1. (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) (on newsgroup comp.sys.amiga)

     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 (on newsgroup alt.games.baldurs-gate)

     Presumably, having uncrunched the data from the compressed archive, it's faster to reload the uncrunched version if it's needed again.

Usage notes

• Associated with the Commodore Amiga computer.