Re: files with extension tar.bz2

To: Manuel Arenaz Silva <arenaz@des.fi.udc.es>, Debain-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: files with extension tar.bz2
From: Onno <ebbin200@tech.nhl.nl>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 06:04:37 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 199910300404.GAA18805@mail.telekabel.nl>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 3819F40F.254322BA@des.fi.udc.es>

At 09:22 PM 10/29/99 +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote:
>What kind of fiels are those that end with ".tar.bz2"? How are they
>decompressed?

The program is called bzip2, it compresses between 10-15%
then gzip.

To get the .tar file: bzip2 -d <file>
To leave the file compressed: bzcat <file> | tar -x

Regards,

Onno

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