Hello, That is a .tar file compressed using the bzip2 compression algorithm. You can use tar to decompress these. Just give the -j argument, for example: tar -xjvf file.tar.bz2 HTH -- It's not one damn thing after another, it's the same damn thing over and over. (History repeats itself) Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 And so it came to pass that on Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Dan Murphy said > 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 >
