No need to bother non-power users with unix utilities—the archive helper that comes with OS X does the right thing from the Finder. As much as I love the terminal, it's not for everybody. :)
On Mar 17, 8:30 pm, huiii <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
