# bzip

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This handbook describes the bzip protocol.

TDE bzip protocol

`bzip` is a compression program. It is rarely used today, having been replaced with bzip2, which offers much better compression.

The bzip tdeioslave is not directly usable and is intended for use as a filter. For example, the tar tdeioslave can filter a file through the bzip tdeioslave, in order to display the contents of a `tar.bz` file directly in a &konqueror; window.

If you click on a file compressed with a `bz` extension in &konqueror;, this tdeioslave is used to uncompress it and display it as a normal (uncompressed) file.