Rif: Re: Working with Cygwin

[gregory.menke at gsfc.nasa.gov]

silverio.di at qem.it writes:
 > 
 > peraps depends by extraction phase from bz2 files,
 > I've used the WinZip.exe program because I don't know the correct way to
 > do same thing with GNU tools....
 > 
 > I've used bunzip2 & tar in this way:
 > 
 > bunzip2 xxxx.bz2
 > tar -xf xxxx.tar (result from bunzip2 operation)
 > 
 > where xxxx.bz2 are oarcorp prebuild binaries for m68K. 386, SH
 > microprocessors
 > and they are located onto root directory
 > 
 > If I mistake the arguments on bunzip or tar please write me the right
 > options
 > 
 > bunzip2 [options] xxxx.bz2
 > tar [options] xxxx.tar  (result from bunzip2 operation)
 > 


bunzip2 -cd xxxx.bz2 | tar xf -
	(more portable)
or

tar Ixf xxxx.bz2
        (for particular versions of gnu tar)


are a little more convienent.

Gregm