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'''Dshrink''' is a command line utility to compress the [[Sidedef|SIDEDEFS lump]] in [[WAD]] files. It was written in 1994 by [[Rand Phares ]] and ran in DOS. The binaries were never officially released in a standalone ZIP format file. The executable was packaged alongside Doom episode replacement [[Cleimos]] created by Rand and [[Steven Phares]]. In 1998, [[Eric James Roberts (Ricrob)]] made dshrink.zip available for download on his [[Doomworld]]-hosted web page. It was also published on Doomworld's "Editors & Utilities" section.
Dshrink will remove redundant sidedefs from [[Levels|levels]] by making many [[Linedef|linedefs]] share one sidedef when all properties are the same. This [[Sidedef#Sidedef compression|sidedef compression]] will shrink the WAD file size. It will also permit larger levels to fit within sidedef limits of the original engine.
