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<article lang="&language;" id="bzip">
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<title
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>bzip</title>
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<articleinfo>
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<authorgroup>
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<author
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>&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;</author>
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<othercredit role="translator"
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><firstname
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>Malcolm</firstname
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><surname
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>Hunter</surname
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><affiliation
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><address
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><email
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>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email
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></address
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></affiliation
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><contrib
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>Conversion to British English</contrib
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></othercredit
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>
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</authorgroup>
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</articleinfo>
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<para
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><command
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>bzip</command
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> is a compression program. It is rarely used today, having been replaced with bzip2, which offers much better compression.</para>
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<para
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>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 <literal role="extension"
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>tar.bz</literal
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> file directly in a &konqueror; window.</para>
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<para
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>If you click on a file compressed with a <literal role="extension"
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>bz</literal
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> extension in &konqueror;, this tdeioslave is used to uncompress it and display it as a normal (uncompressed) file.</para>
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<para
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>If you are a developer, and would like to use the bzip filter, you can find documentation on using tdeioslaves at <ulink url="http://developer.kde.org"
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>http://developer.kde.org</ulink
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></para>
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</article>
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