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02/13/2001 Archived Entry: "IntellishrinkAMP#153;"

Microsoft Outlook Mobile Manager lets you forward messages to SMS, and has an option (with a lovely big slider bar - see screenshot) for text compression of the message - by optionally shrinking words while keeping them semi-meaningful (e.g. "opptnty" instead of opportunity), removing spaces, removing vowels etc. James and I were discussing building filters through which you could pipe stuff as part of a generic SMS server, and he remembered an old DOS program that did that kind of thing. I didn't find it, but I did find this interesting page about approximate string matching.