y? Geez... I must have always fallen asleep before I got to y parameter
in tar docs. I always did it the long way. z was impressed onto my
brain when I was young, so I knew that one.
Thanks Tom! Now I feel I should go to the web site and read more of
your information, but I always end up spending hours because of the
"hey, I didn't know that" stuff you have there. :)
Tom Berger wrote:
>
> On 07-Mar-2000 Vidyut Luther wrote:
> > there is a utility called bunzip2, use that to unzip it, . tar does
> > recognize it, i forgot the switch though. but a simple:
> >
> > bunzip2 jre.tar.bz2; tar xvf jre.tar
>
> Guys,
>
> Linux isn't easy, but it's not *that* complicated ;-). The command is
>
> tar xyf [archivename]
>
> i.e. just replace the 'z' with an 'y'.
>
> (http://www.mandrakeuser.org/basics/bsource.html#Unpacking)
>
> tom
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Lane Lester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 4:03 PM
> > Subject: [newbie] bz2?
> >
> >
> >> I said:
> >> > Well, since I don't do any programming, I just need a Java runtime
> > called JRE.
> >> > I'm downloading the one from blackdown as Richard suggested, so here's
> > hoping.
> >>
> >> Hmm, the file came in as a .tar.bz2, and tar doesn't recognize it. I'm not
> > sure I've ever encountered a .bz2 before.
> >> --
> >> Lane
> >> ____
> >> Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
> >> Using Linux to get where I want to go...
> >>
>
> --
> "No fun, no gain"
> Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work)
> http://www.mandrakeuser.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
