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There's a Quick Start guide here:

https://openzl.org/getting-started/quick-start/

However, OpenZL is different in that you need to tell the compressor how to compress your data. The CLI tool has a few builtin "profiles" which you can specify with the `--profile` argument. E.g. csv, parquet, or le-u64. They can be listed with `./zli list-profiles`.

You can always use the `serial` profile, but because you haven't told OpenZL anything about your data, it will just use Zstandard under the hood. Training can learn a compressor, but it won't be able to learn a format like `.tar` today.

If you have raw numeric data you want to throw at it, or Parquets or large CSV files, thats where I would expect OpenZL to perform really well.



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