Dan, The bz2 extension means that the utility "bzip2" was used instead of "gzip" to unpack it, which is a more efficient compression program. Tar recognizes it by simply using the 'j' option instead of 'z' when compressing or decompressing an archive. Chuck On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 04:55:06AM -0400, 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 -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (88% of Full) But you can still get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
