&Lauri.Watts; &tde-authors; &tde-release-version; Reviewed: &tde-release-date; 2010 &Lauri.Watts; &tde-copyright-date; &tde-team; 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.