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+<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>