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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Nomdo Jansonius wrote:
> > Slackware 9.1 has a manifest.BZ2. I don't know how do
> > decompress a .BZ2.
>
> ---------------------
> bunzip2  manifest.bz2
> ---------------------
> BL3 has the bunzip2 command.  BL2 does not.
> Slackware 7.1 has it:  /slakware/a1/bzip2.tgz

I read MANIFEST.gz with zless.  Is there some similar way to read a .bz2 
file?  I suppose you could bunzip2 then gzip the result to get a .gz 
again.

I see that bunzip2 is part of busybox - is it lacking any features that we 
would notice?

> Cheers,
> Steven

Sindi