From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DwcI0-0000wP-00 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 04:56:52 -0400 Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com (frontend2.internal [10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A8ABCC2520 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 04:56:52 -0400 (EDT) X-Sasl-enc: 1de0I464DWkU4tTzugC5SmbQNp9YkFasayxosi/Z1wwU 1122195412 Received: from hhs48.com (24-105-197-112.cm.mhcable.com [24.105.197.112]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C50756F785 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 04:56:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from chuckh by hhs48.com with local (Exim 4.52) id 1DwcHz-0005Zg-TU for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 04:56:51 -0400 Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 04:56:51 -0400 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20050724085651.GB21197@hhs48.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Charles Hallenbeck Subject: Re: A tar question X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 08:56:53 -0000 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@verizon.net > MSN only: mweeby@earthlink.net > http://mysite.verizon.net/mweeby > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@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