Re: files with extension tar.bz2

1999-10-31 Thread Sean
Of course the price you pay is a 25-50% performance hit(highly dependent on the CPU MHz). Personally I only bzip things that I don't often use, as the increased decompression speed of gzip is worth the small loss of compression capacity. For instance, tar Ixvf linux-kernel-source.tar.bz2 takes

Re: files with extension tar.bz2

1999-10-30 Thread Onno
At 09:22 PM 10/29/99 +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: What kind of fiels are those that end with .tar.bz2? How are they decompressed? The program is called bzip2, it compresses between 10-15% then gzip. To get the .tar file: bzip2 -d file To leave the file compressed: bzcat file | tar -x

Re: files with extension tar.bz2

1999-10-30 Thread Onno
Ah, I missed that... Thanks, Onno At 11:55 AM 10/29/99 -0500, David Blackman wrote: Often people forget, but tar supports bz2 (if you have bzip), the flags -xvIf (capital i) will untar+bz2 any file. --dave On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, William T Wilson wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Manuel Arenaz

files with extension tar.bz2

1999-10-29 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
What kind of fiels are those that end with .tar.bz2? How are they decompressed? Thaks in advance, Manuel Arenaz

Re: files with extension tar.bz2

1999-10-29 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: What kind of fiels are those that end with .tar.bz2? How are they decompressed? They are compressed with b-zip. It's like gzip but better compression. You can unpack them with 'bunzip2'.

Re: files with extension tar.bz2

1999-10-29 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 21:22:55 +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: What kind of fiels are those that end with .tar.bz2? Tar archives compressed with bzip2. Uncompress using tar -xvfI foo.tar.bz2. HTH, Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday

Re: files with extension tar.bz2

1999-10-29 Thread David Blackman
Often people forget, but tar supports bz2 (if you have bzip), the flags -xvIf (capital i) will untar+bz2 any file. --dave On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, William T Wilson wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: What kind of fiels are those that end with .tar.bz2? How are they