unpack the source tarball on Windows

Michael Torrie torriem at gmail.com
Tue Mar 31 03:37:50 EDT 2009


Mensanator wrote:
> Thanks. Still had to untar the ball, but I also downloaded a
> trial version of Winzip which took care of that.

Right.  The proper command is:

tar -xvjf tarball.tar.bz2

The recommended GUI for all things archival on Windows I think has to be
7zip.  And it's not cursed shareware either.  Open source.




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