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'. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >