Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 15:42:01 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Duke Normandin <dnormandin@freewwweb.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: OT - what is a .bz2 file? Message-ID: <399AEE89.56045084@mitre.org> References: <001c01c00784$b6586de0$dd9fc5d1@odie>
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Duke Normandin wrote: > > I recently DLed some software that uses the .bz2 extension. Now I > realize that it's a compressed file, but nothing I have can deal with > it. Would somebody please jump in and point me in the right direction. bzip2 is the free implementation of bzip, the block sorting file compressor. It works a lot like gzip, but is slower and compresses the files slightly smaller. There is a port available for FreeBSD right where you would expect it to be: /usr/ports/archivers/bzip2 Preemptive note: bzip is NOT compatable with bzip2 in any way, if you get a .bz file, you need bzip to deal with it, and if you get a bz2 file, you need to use bzip2. Most files you are going to see are bzip2 files. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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