and dig into terminal command-line tool 'tar' $ man tar
On Mar 16, 3:49 pm, Eris <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
