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5 <author>&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;</author>
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10 <para><command>bzip</command> is a compression program. It is rarely
11 used today, having been replaced with bzip2, which offers much better
14 <para>The bzip kioslave is not directly usable, and is intended for use
15 as a filter. For example, the tar kioslave can filter a file through
16 the bzip kioslave, in order to display the contents of a <literal
17 role="extension">tar.bz</literal> file directly in a &konqueror;
20 <para>If you click on a file compressed with a <literal
21 role="extension">bz</literal> extension in &konqueror;, this kioslave is
22 used to uncompress it and display it as a normal (uncompressed)
25 <para>If you are a developer, and would like to use the bzip filter,
26 you can find documentation on using kioslaves at <ulink
27 url="http://developer.kde.org">http://developer.kde.org</ulink></para>