tar.bz2

[Michael A Chase]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:49:16 -0500 David Robinow <Robinows@netscape.net> wrote:

> DEEPA SIVASANKARANE <aj9035@wayne.edu> 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.

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