<article lang="&language;" id="bzip">
<title
>bzip</title>
<articleinfo>
<authorgroup>
<author
>&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;</author>
<othercredit role="translator"
><firstname
>Malcolm</firstname
><surname
>Hunter</surname
><affiliation
><address
><email
>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email
></address
></affiliation
><contrib
>Conversion to British English</contrib
></othercredit
> 
</authorgroup>
</articleinfo>

<para
><command
>bzip</command
> is a compression program. It is rarely used today, having been replaced with bzip2, which offers much better compression.</para>

<para
>The bzip kioslave is not directly usable, and is intended for use as a filter. For example, the tar kioslave can filter a file through the bzip kioslave, in order to display the contents of a <literal role="extension"
>tar.bz</literal
> file directly in a &konqueror; window.</para>

<para
>If you click on a file compressed with a <literal role="extension"
>bz</literal
> extension in &konqueror;, this kioslave is used to uncompress it and display it as a normal (uncompressed) file.</para>

<para
>If you are a developer, and would like to use the bzip filter, you can find documentation on using kioslaves at <ulink url="http://developer.kde.org"
>http://developer.kde.org</ulink
></para>

</article>