Re: a quick support question

[pohl]

In addition to this, recent versions of gnu tar can automatically
filter through bzip2 with the "j" switch just like the "z" switch
filters through gzip:

$ tar jxf foo.tar.bz2

ian wrote:
> man bzip2!
> 
> bunzip2 blah.bz2
> 
> - ian
> 
> scott francis wrote:
> >
> > i've been a long time absent from this discussion group. 
> > trying to get a snapshot of the code, i grabbed one of the
> > daily snapshots.  however, it is in a .tar.bz2 format which
> > i'm not positive how to unpack... my standard tar zxf blah.tar.bz2
> > command didn't do the trick :)
> > 
> > can anyone send me a quick pointer?

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