how to uncompress .bz2 archives

[Michael George]

On Friday, September 13, 2002, at 07:20  PM, Ladislav Bodnar wrote:

> On Saturday 14 September 2002 04:04, Michael George wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Then try "tar xvyf file.tar.bz2". See if this works.

Oops, my bad.  I was thinking this was my darwin list, not yellow 
dog...  the "j" option works in linux...