36. A method as defined in claim 35, wherein the step of selecting dictionary identifiers further comprises ordering the dictionary identifiers in order of the display code representation of the dictionary segment.
36. A method as defined in claim 35, wherein the step of selecting dictionary identifiers further comprises ordering the dictionary identifiers in order of the display code representation of the dictionary segment. 37. A method as defined in claim 36, wherein the step of selecting further comprises the steps of: ordering the dictionary identifiers according to the compressed output length and the number of compressed symbols in the compression results; determining a set of desired system-built dictionary fixed sizes; and discarding particular ones of the dictionary identifiers so as to include in the system-built dictionary only those dictionary identifiers that will represent a system-built dictionary having a size less than or equal to a selected system-built dictionary fixed size.