On 09/27/03 12:15 PM -0400, Rejean Proulx wrote: > so far so good, except that I can't figure out what to use for bz2 files. > The instructions say to use tar but it doesn't work. There is a utility > that does it I'm sure but for now, it is a mystery to me. First there is bunzip2 which will just open bz2 files, but then you still have to run the resulting tar file through tar. Most current versions of tar have an option (either -j or -y) which will decompress bz2 files. -- Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others. Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org gpg: 45CBBABD