Thanks to Rick and Neale for their quick responses.

I'm going to learn this stuff one of these days.  Maybe if I weren't
maintaining four separate operating systems on a daily basis I'd have time
to learn one.

"You do not need a parachute to skydive.  You only need a parachute to
skydive twice."  -Motto of the Darwin Society
Gordon W. Wolfe, Ph.D.  (425) 865-5940
VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company


> ----------
> From:         Rick Troth
> Reply To:     Linux on 390 Port
> Sent:         Thursday, March 21, 2002 9:46 AM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:      Re: file extension
>
> > What
> > does the .bz2 extension signify?
>
> BZip (or BZip2).   It is replacing GZip in some areas.
> In fact,  some FTP sites are going so far as to offer both
> .gz and .bz (or .bz2) compressed copies of <whatever>
> not unlike they did some years ago with both .Z and .gz.
>
>

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