Re: files with extension tar.bz2

[David Blackman <david@whizziwig.com>]

Often people forget, but tar supports bz2 (if you have bzip), the flags
-xvIf (capital i) will untar+bz2 any file.

--dave

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, William T Wilson wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote:
> 
> > What kind of fiels are those that end with ".tar.bz2"? How are they
> > decompressed?
> 
> They are compressed with b-zip.  It's like gzip but better compression.
> 
> You can unpack them with 'bunzip2'.
> 
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