or you could let port install do it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brent Harding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby 
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: unpacking a darwin port


I've only done these in Linux, but since MacOS is said to be unix-based, I'd
probably try bunzip2 filename.tar.bz2. Then with the tar file, it would
probably be tar xf filename.tar, replacing the file name with the name of
the real file, of course.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: ".dan." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:57 AM
Subject: unpacking a darwin port


>
> I downloaded the darwin port of lynx.  It has a ".tar.bz2" extension.  I
> have used gzip and gunzip for ".gz" compressed files but I 'm not familiar
> with the above "bz2" extension.
>
> What do I use at the leperd terminal to uncompress it?  What then is the
> tar command to get the individual files?
>
> Thanks.
>
>                               XB
>                                IC|XC
>
>




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