87. A system as defined in claim 86, wherein the dictionary build processor further includes: means for determining a desired system-built dictionary size; means for ordering the dictionary identifiers according to the cumulative compression ratio; and means for selecting the dictionary segments so as to include in the system-built dictionary only those dictionary segments that will maintain the system-built dictionary size less than or equal to the desired system-built dictionary size.
86. A system as defined in claim 72, wherein the dictionary build processor produces a dictionary token comprising the dictionary identifiers ordered in a sequence in accordance with the display representation of the identifiers of the respective dictionary segments.