[NTLUG:Discuss] What's this extension?

Kyle Edbauer abignerd at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 29 20:11:14 CDT 1999


It is using bzip2.  You can pick up a copy at freshmeat.net.  The command
to uncompress is bunzip2.  I've found that in most cases it compresses
better than gzip.

Kyle

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Alex D. Coker wrote:

> I've got a tarball with an extension '.bz2'. What the heck is that, and
> how do I de-compress it?
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