Did a little bit of research. Looks like support for bzip2 files was added to GNU tar in 1999, but it used a gnu-style switch (--bzip2/--unzip2). The Changelog doesn't mention when that was changed to -j, however.
Nuckerl Stefan said: > Damn folks, you are right -j option should work on a gentoo box. > > My old tar here at work doesn't have the -j switch. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jan Heylen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 10:37 AM > Subject: [gentoo-user] Untarring does not work. > > >> Hi, >> >> if I do, in the very beginning of install: >> >> 'tar -xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/stages/stage3-*.tar.bz2' >> >> *nothing* happens. The tar is not taking mem, nor cpu time if I look >> with >> 'ps -e u | grep tar'. >> >> The system is a PI 100mhz with 32mb of ram (an IBM PC 350). I know this >> is >> not much, and I'm not installing KDE or something, >> just try to untar the file I just got with FTP, the live-cd I'm using >> Is > the >> old 'ut2K3 demo livecd'. >> >> If I do 'tar -c archive.tar poo bar' (poo and bar created before), that >> works, It creates the archive. >> But when I try to do 'tar -x archive.tar', I see the same behaviour, > nothing >> happens. >> >> >> Can somebody help me out, some hints, tips to find the actual problem? >> I heard about 'strace', is that on the livecd? >> >> My guess is, is that my tar is broken(?!?). >> >> >> Jan >> >> -- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >> >> > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
