# xz / lzma

Per Øyvind
Karlsen
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2010
Per Øyvind Karlsen
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This handbook describes the xz protocol.

TDE
xz
protocol

Xz is a compression program

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

If you click on a file compressed with a `.lzma` or `tar.xz` in &konqueror;, this slave is used to uncompress it and display it as a normal (uncompressed) file.

Read the man page: xz.