bunzip that little devil!

bzip2(1)                                                 bzip2(1)

NAME
       bzip2, bunzip2 - a block-sorting file compressor, v1.0
       bzcat - decompresses files to stdout
       bzip2recover - recovers data from damaged bzip2 files

thats a bzip file. it compressed to a smaller rate then just .tgz


Dave Kleist wrote:

> Okay, I'm lost.  I'm trying to recompile a kernel (potato
> 2.2.18-pre21-compact) because I've installed a CD-RW in the box and I
> need to override ATAPI, and use SCSI emulation.  So, I've tried to do
> this, but I got a tar.bz2 file: what do I do with this?  I tried tar
> -xvf and that didn't seem to work.  (I already have kernel-package
> downloaded, btw).
>
> I also tried Google, but everyone seems to have assumed that I got a
> good package downloaded.  So, anybody have any hints for me?
>
> Thanks.
>
>          - Dave
>
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