From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 16 12:39:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mbunix.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27B8F37B5C8 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 12:39:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA00325 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 15:39:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA13667 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 15:37:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id FZEH9X00.LLC; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 15:39:33 -0400 Message-ID: <399AEE89.56045084@mitre.org> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 15:42:01 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Duke Normandin Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: OT - what is a .bz2 file? References: <001c01c00784$b6586de0$dd9fc5d1@odie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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