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. > >
