thanks. I guess my tar was new enough because the j option worked. On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Kelly Prescott wrote: > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- dan Murphy mailto:mweeby at verizon.net MSN only: mweeby at earthlink.net http://mysite.verizon.net/mweeby
