On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:48:18AM +0530, Abhishek Khaitan wrote: > Can;t we use bunzip2 instead of playing with tar? And after bunzip2, try tar > -x kernel-2.2.16.tar ? The usual suggestion is: bzip2 -dc <filename.tar.bz2> | tar -xf - s/bzip2/gzip/ or s/bzip2/uncompress/ as necessary -- Randomly Generated Tagline: If you remove stricture from a large Perl program currently, you're just installing delayed bugs, whereas with this feature, you're installing an instant bug that's easily fixed. Whoopee. -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>