A tar question

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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

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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
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