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Name: satimis
Date: July 18, 2006 at 22:11:32 Pacific
OS: WinXP
CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon64/1G
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Hi folks,

WinXP

How to extract .tar.bz2 (compressed tarball)

I have Bsdtar-1.2.38 installed on this PC. After mounting the DVD which contained the compressed tarballs, .tar.bz2,

On Window Explore
Right click "AAA.tar.bz2 -> Open With -> selected under Recommended Programs: "Bsdtar: maniuplate archives (.tar, .gz, .z, .bz2, .zip)" then [OK]

Nothing happened.

Please advise which FOSS software/packages I have to use. Googling, freshmeat and sourceforge brought me many of them and I selected Bsdtar on;
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/bsdtar.htm

TIA

B.R.
satimis



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Response Number 1
Name: Wombat
Date: July 18, 2006 at 22:32:20 Pacific
Reply:

Go here and get freeware 7zip it extracts the .tar.bz2 file with ease...

http://www.7-zip.org/

Quote: Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity!


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Response Number 2
Name: satimis
Date: July 19, 2006 at 00:35:26 Pacific
Reply:

Hi Wombat,

Tks for your advice.

Before installing Bsdtar-1.2.38 I visited this site and could not resolve which software/package to download

Link Type Windows Size
Download .exe 32-bit 818 KB
Download .msi 873 KB
Download x64 1238 KB

I'm running WinXP on AMD 64-bit box. What is .msi?

TIA

satimis


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Response Number 3
Name: Wombat
Date: July 19, 2006 at 00:48:54 Pacific
Reply:

.msi = MicroSoft Installer...

Quote: Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity!


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Response Number 4
Name: tonysathre
Date: July 19, 2006 at 07:43:28 Pacific
Reply:

What package is this? Usually Bzipped Tarballs are for Linux systems.

UNIX is an operating system, OS/2 is half an operating system, Windows is a shell, and DOS is a boot partition virus.


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Response Number 5
Name: Wombat
Date: July 19, 2006 at 14:32:49 Pacific
Reply:

tonysathre I get the FreeDB update for Windows in .tar.bz2 compression format.

Have a look here http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/freedb/


Thats why I recommended 7zip...

Quote: Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity!


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