Hi Chuck. did that and it worked fine. thanks. On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > 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 > > -- dan Murphy mailto:mweeby at verizon.net MSN only: mweeby at earthlink.net http://mysite.verizon.net/mweeby
