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From: "Joseph C. Lininger" <jbahm@pcdesk.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: A tar question
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 11:54:07 -0600 (Mountain Daylight Time)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.63.0507241153030.3020@merlin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0507240451520.1094@buyshish.verizon.net>

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@pcdesk.net
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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@verizon.net
> MSN only: mweeby@earthlink.net
> http://mysite.verizon.net/mweeby
>
>
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Dan Murphy
 ` Charles Hallenbeck
   ` Dan Murphy
 ` Kelly Prescott
   ` Dan Murphy
 ` Joseph C. Lininger [this message]
 ` Chris Norman
   ` Chris Norman
   ` Re[2]: " Farhan
     ` Sina Bahram
       ` Re[4]: " Farhan
         ` Gregory Nowak
           ` Joseph C. Lininger
         ` Re[4]: " Sina Bahram
         ` Joseph C. Lininger
       ` Re[2]: " Chris Norman
     ` Chris Norman
   ` Dan Murphy
 ` Sean McMahon
 JAMES DOSMAN
 ` Dan Murphy
 ` Sean McMahon
 JAMES DOSMAN

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