Gordon,
You are right ... the bz2 suffix implies that it was compressed by bzip2.
Use the -d switch with bzip2 to decompress it. Some implementations of GNU
tar use the -j or -y switch (depending) to use bzip2 as the (de)compressor,
too.
--Jim--
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IBM Corporation
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I have a file that came from SuSE that has an extension xxx.tar.bz2
It looks like some kind of compression algorithm has been done on it. What
does the .bz2 extension signify?
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