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─────Specify Word-Separator Characters (/K)─────────────────────────────────
 
     Syntax:  /Kfilename
 
     This option specifies in <filename> a file containing word-
     separator characters. This file consists of a single line
     containing characters that separate words.
 
     ASCII characters from 0 to 32 and 127 are always separators. If
     the /K option is not specified, the following characters are also
     separators:
 
          space !"#&'()*+-,/:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~
 
     Using the /K option, you can specify a set of separator characters
     different from the set above. Depending on the characteristics of
     your text, changing word separators can improve (or worsen)
     compression. You can control compression with the /E option.
     See: ◄Encode (/E)►
 
     For example, C source files frequently have the word "#include" in
     the text. With the default separators, "include" would be
     recognized as a word (and possibly used as a compression keyword),
     but "#include" would not. Compression could be improved by putting
     the list above (without the "#" character) in a file and
     specifying this file with the /K option.
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