According to Akintayo Holder: While burning my CPU.
>
> > Imagen what the comments would be *IF* the origanal question asker uses
> > your options and he had not made a copy first.
>
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>
> Sorry but I just typed
> $ bzip2 -d gnomeicu-0.62a.tar.bz2
> $ ls
> gnomeicu-0.62a.tar
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> Which is what i said the tar will replace the original, ergo xxx.tar.bz2
> becomes xxx.tar
> Then I did
> $ tar -xvf gnomeicu-0.62a.tar
> $ ls
> gnomeicu-0.62a gnomeicu-0.62a.tar
>
> go figure
Well all i can say is you *must* have a different version than i do, my
version is from Slackware-3.6 and is;
pa3gcu:/home/pa3gcu/scripts/scc# bzip2 -V
bzip2, a block-sorting file compressor. Version 0.9.0b, 9-Sept-98.
Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998 by Julian Seward.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms set out in the LICENSE file, which is included
in the bzip2-0.9.0b source distribution.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
LICENSE file for more details.
bzip2: I won't write compressed data to a terminal.
bzip2: For help, type: `bzip2 --help'.
The above version deletes the file *unless* the -k option is used or at the
very least it *does* here.
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Regards Richard.
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