Hi: In addition to the comments about bzip and bunzip, if you have these utilities and a relatively recent version of tar, you can deal with tar.bz2 files in a similar way to how you can handle tar.gz files, by making tar invoke bunzip2. Consult your tar manpage or built-in help for doing this though as the command is different in different versions of tar. In mine, it's -I, but I've heard of -y and -j as well. Geoff.
