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

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