Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:15:17 -0800 (PST) From: Michael A Chase Subject: Re: tar.bz2 To: DEEPA SIVASANKARANE , David Robinow cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: INLINE References: <02638754.772D80AE.00822747@netscape.net> In-Reply-To: <02638754.772D80AE.00822747@netscape.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by delorie.com id h0AHEGv02612 On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:49:16 -0500 David Robinow wrote: > DEEPA SIVASANKARANE wrote: > >  could someone please tell me how to extract from a tar.bz2 > >format ? > bzip2 --help > tar --help > info bzip2 > info tar The problem with all those is that they bypass setup.exe which could result in a corrupted installation and many more problems. They would be appropriate if the original requester wasn't trying to extract Cygwin packages. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/