how to uncompress .bz2 archives

[Michael George]

On Friday, September 13, 2002, at 03:31  PM, Olivier Reisch wrote:

> On Friday 13 September 2002 15:59, hotFusion wrote:
>> This may sound like a stupid question but I cannot figure out how to
>> decompress any files with the .bz2 extension.
>
> If it's a .tar.bz2, you can also use "tar -xvjf file.tar.bz2"

You can?  I just tried that today and tar complained that the "j" 
option is unknown.  Is there a secret update for it somewhere, or did 
you build the GNU tar for your system?

-Michael George
  Senior Engineer, Software Development
  Aurora Video Systems, Inc.