Bzip2 is supported natively by Mac OS X natively and is far from "arcane". I'm kind of surprised you haven't been able to find anything on the interwebs to extract it since it's pretty much ubiquitous outside of Windows.
Your problem isn't bzip2 itself, though. Your web browser (Firefox?) has misidentified a bzip2-compressed disk image (again, perfectly native to ) and given it the wrong file name. The disk image mounter is not able to mount an image that has been decompressed, probably because there's some subtle difference in the format, but maybe because there's a header that bzip2 is discarding as garbage. Just rename the file and everything will be ok, and file a bug report with whomever makes your browser telling them about the problem. On Mar 16, 2:39 am, creativewombat <[email protected]> wrote: > so let me begin by saying i am a huge QS fan. I have been reading > through the guides for years and its a critical core of my working > environment. that being said, i am still a pedestrian power user, by > no means fluid on the command line but use QS fluidly. This may seem > like a small rant, but I simply wanted to install QS on some MAC > laptops I have on my LAN. I wen tto the BTree site and the downloads > are in bz2 format. > Long story short - why do everytime I turn around QS is some fricken > srcane file format that I have to chade around the web to get > unarchived. For chirst sake - even the conversion web base sites dont > support it. Yes, I have trolled the boards, tried different apps and > even gone to support groups - apparently there are a lot of people > having the same problem. I mean how hard could it be to post a zip or > a RAR - ??? > So, heres what really confuses me - in the greater vision of getting > QS wider visibility and support - why does this keep happening. It is > both frustrating and confusing that BTree would consistently not cater > to the super-geek to get apps running. > In the meantime - if anyone has any fixes - please respond because i > simply can't get QS 54 unarchived.
