> Or it could be a 'y' as well.  Aren't standards wonderful?  There are so
> many to choose from!

I gather the GNU block chose a letter already used with a different tar
for a different purpose.

Since I found that I always use "--bzip2" which I figger will always
work properly or fail, never do the wrong thing.


>
> Mark Post
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ferguson, Neale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 12:46 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: file extension
>
>
> Use bunzip2 to decompress or tar -xjf xxx.tar.bz2 (the j may be an I on some
> systems)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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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