> Any recent version of tar can (should) handle uncompressing bz2
> files natively now. There was an argument switch a few revs back which
> changed the -I to -j or --bzip2 on uncompress. I believe on your Solaris 2.6
> system, you can use this to uncompress a bzip2 file compressed as such,
> though it will only work if tar was also part of the archive (i.e. foo.bz2
> won't work this way, but foo.tar.bz2 will).
Just tried it, no dice. But I've got bzip2, so no big deal for me.
I guess for source distros it's not a big deal; anyone building the
sources can be expected to have it. The binaries-only distribution
should perhaps be less cutting-edge in its packaging.
Bill
