tar will do it if your tar is new enough and you have bzip on your system. just use the j option in place of the z option. kp On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Dan Murphy wrote: > Hi all. > I recently downloaded a version of MPlayer but the archive is a type I've > never seen before. > the file name is MPlayer-1.0pre6.tar.bz2, and I've never seen the .bz2 > extention. Can I use tar to unpack this, and what options should I use, or > do I need another utility to do it? > Thanks. > -- dan Murphy > mailto:mweeby at verizon.net > MSN only: mweeby at earthlink.net > http://mysite.verizon.net/mweeby > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >