the bz2, means it is a bzip2 compression format. tar -xjf will uncompress the .tar.bz2 archive. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Murphy" <mweeby@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup mailing list" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 1:55 AM Subject: A tar question > 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
