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Subject: Re: What's the ".bz2" ending mean?

Author: William Penn

Date: 03:07:05 07/13/03

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On July 12, 2003 at 11:55:16, Telmo Escobar wrote:

>On July 12, 2003 at 10:44:24, Frank Phillips wrote:
>
>>On July 12, 2003 at 08:43:27, William Penn wrote:
>>
>>>I downloaded a couple of files but have not idea how to access them. What's the
>>>".bz2" ending mean? How do I convert them to text files, etc.?
>>>WP
>>
>>
>>bzip2  compression.  Like zip, but produces smaller files usually and is free -
>>and often costs no money as well.
>>
>>I use GNU/Linux, which comes with bzip (both bzip and bzip2).
>>
>>There are probably free Windows bzip2 versions on the net somewhere, maybe even
>>on Dann's site.
>>
>>Frank
>
> http://www.powerarchiver.com

Thanks for the replies, but it looks like I won't be decompressing any .bz2
files in the near future, thus won't be downloading any more of Dan Corbit's
files. They want 20 bucks for powerarchiver. I'm running windows, not linux,
which leads to too many complications otherwise. I've been down that road in the
past with other software apps. The gap between linux and windows is too great
for me to bother. I could possibly figure it out if I made it into a major
project, but I have better things to do with my time...  :)
WP




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