Gordon,

.bz2 = bzip2 which will compress files even more than gzip, at the expense
of additional CPU cycles.

Mark Post

-----Original Message-----
From: Wolfe, Gordon W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 12:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: file extension


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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