On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 17:39 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
> damian bamforth schreef:
> > On Sat, 2005-10-22 14:59:02, Rumen Yotov wrote:
> > 
> >> IIRC you can use "7zip" for Windows to >uncompress
> > 
> > .bz2 compressed files.
> > 
> >> Or search for bzip2 for Windows (was "win tools" or something 
> >> similar).
> > 
> > 
> > I have managed to decompress the file with 'bsdtar', however, this 
> > does not result in an 'iso' but actually turns the 
> > livecd64-ahorn5.iso.bz2 into all the files that would make up the 
> > livecd64-ahorn5.iso, so I do end up with all the files, but not an 
> > image I can burn onto a cd.
> 
> Perhaps the file you're using has been deliberately misnamed. Or,
> perhaps bsdtar is not as useful a program as it would seem at first glance.
> 
> If you remove the *.bz2 extension, leaving the filename as just *.iso,
> can it then be burned as an ISO in your CD burning software?
> 
> In any case I would check the file with WinRAR or 7zip (or even Total
> Commander) to confirm that it really is a bzipped iso, and not just an
> ISO that has been renamed to iso.bz2
> 
> Holly
Hi,
Use 'file' to check for file's type, e.g. "file filename.ext".
Using "unzip+bz2+windows" on Google returns many more but also this one
with nearly 20 zip/unzip Win progs:
http://www.nonags.com/nonags/ziputil.html
HTH.Rumen

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