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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.
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