----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronald Landheer-Cieslak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Henning, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 4:09 AM Subject: Re: gzip bzip2
> ignore my previous message: replace the "z" by a "j", not the "x". > > The stuff about this not being a Cygwin qeustion remains, though While we are 'off-topic' - thought I might note that the j flag isn't 'standard' - but does happen to work on most recent copys of tar which get distributed since bz2 is popular. I keep wondering where the flags gone on my dec alpha, then i remember i forgot to find and apply the patch when i compiled tar. > > rlc > > NB must be getting tired... > > On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Henning, Brian wrote: > > > I would like to uncompress a .tar.bz2 file. I know how to uncompress .tar.gz > > files with > > the command tar xvzf archive.tar.gz. is there are similar command for > > .tar.bz2 files? > > > > thanks, > > b > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
