A tar question

[Charles Hallenbeck]

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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