If you do tar jxvf <filename.bz2> this should extract all the files.

on Wednesday 01/02/2008 Brent Harding([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
 > I've only done these in Linux, but since MacOS is said to be unix-based, I'd 
 > probably try bunzip2 filename.tar.bz2. Then with the tar file, it would 
 > probably be tar xf filename.tar, replacing the file name with the name of 
 > the real file, of course.
 > 
 > ----- Original Message ----- 
 > From: ".dan." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 > To: <[email protected]>
 > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:57 AM
 > Subject: unpacking a darwin port
 > 
 > 
 > >
 > > I downloaded the darwin port of lynx.  It has a ".tar.bz2" extension.  I
 > > have used gzip and gunzip for ".gz" compressed files but I 'm not familiar
 > > with the above "bz2" extension.
 > >
 > > What do I use at the leperd terminal to uncompress it?  What then is the
 > > tar command to get the individual files?
 > >
 > > Thanks.
 > >
 > >                               XB
 > >                                IC|XC
 > >
 > > 
 > 

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