We transition to actually real world applications later on like a compression-- how do you take a huge amount of data ; and actually whittle it down into something more manageable; something that uses less of your disk space.

然后我们会讲生活中的应用程序,比方说压缩文件——,把大量的数据分解使其更易管理;,并占用尽量少的磁盘空间。

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Because I know this program was saved by default into my current folder, my current directory, so dot slash means run the program called a.out that's right here in my current directory not in, like, a out my applications folder or somewhere else.

程序默认保存在,当前目录下的文件夹，/意味着运行这个名为“a，out“的文件,是我当前目录下的文件，而不是应用程序文件夹或其他别的地方的。

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