To support text compression,data in a fixed-length field that includes a short name followed by many blank characters can be replaced with a variable-length field and a special code to indicate how many blanks were truncated.

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This is a common technique used in text compression to reduce the size of fixed-length fields that contain mostly blank spaces. By replacing them with variable-length fields and a code to indicate the number of truncated blanks, the overall size of the data can be reduced while still preserving the original information.

To Support Text Compression,data in a Fixed-Length Field That Includes