# gzip

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

This handbook describes the gzip protocol.

TDE
gzip
protocol

`gzip` is a compression program

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

If you click on a file compressed with a `gz` extension in &konqueror;, this tdeioslave is used to uncompress it and display it as a normal (uncompressed) file.

Read the man page: gzip.