.bz2 files?

[Geoff Shang]

Hi:

In addition to the comments about bzip and bunzip, if you have these
utilities and a relatively recent version of tar, you can deal with tar.bz2
files in a similar way to how you can handle tar.gz files, by making tar
invoke bunzip2.  Consult your tar manpage or built-in help for doing this
though as the command is different in different versions of tar.  In mine,
it's -I, but I've heard of -y and -j as well.

Geoff.