A tar question

[Kelly Prescott]

tar will do it if your tar is new enough and you have bzip on your system.
just use the j option in place of the z option.
kp


On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, 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
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