Explain GZIP to a newbie

Exactly as the title suggests. I have a site that uses many CSS and JS files, I use mootools and the file is 64kb on my disk but the site says it can be gzipped to 18kb. What is this all about? I have tried a few things I read on the internet and i'm not any closer to getting it. Do i somehow zip the file and upload it and then link to mootools.js.gzip? Or is it more complex than that?

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alex_wareing

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alex_wareing

3/4/2009

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I seem to have gzip on my server but i'm having some problems getting it working, I have added this into the .htaccess:

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml
<Files *.js>
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
</Files>

Doesn't seem to have made a difference?

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