A tar question

[Dan Murphy]

thanks.  I guess my tar was new enough because the j option worked.

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Kelly Prescott wrote:

> 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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