| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 2 Aug 2000 at 17:37:42 |
| Subject: | Re: MorphOS |
hi,
> look inviting and could give eventually my classic Amiga the benefit of my
> PPC. (Which usually sits there keeping my machine warm, but not much else
> unless I feed it a MPEG video, MP3 or game of Quake to process... ;)
;-) mine does a little more than that in its AmigaOS usage..but still i get
yer point.
> Just one problem though: How the heck do you uncompress it? I mean why not
> stick it in LHA or LZX format? Instead we have something in tape archive
> bz2 (BZip 2) format? How the hell do i uncompress that thing!
BZip2 format? Its well known now...its better than gzip. We, thanks to the
work of some hardened Amiga coders have good implementations of bzip on the
Amiga. in fact theres a link on the MorphOS page for a bzip2 program. theres
a WarpOs version on the aminet and there is even an XPK bzip2 library (which
I use with YAM to compress my archived messages)
> It's a .tar.bz2 file. And gun zip doesn't help either. :-( Any ideas?
two steps.
bzip2 -d thisfile.tar.bz2
tar -xvf thisfile.tar
alan
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