the .bz2 files

[Thomas Regner]

On Mit, 22 Mär 2000, you wrote:
> thanks
> 
> ------------------
> 
> p_george wrote:
> 
> > Harold Hartley a écrit :
> > >
> > > I had noticed the newer kdk file with the .bz2 on the end of it..
> > > I'm not familiar with that and is that a updated kdk file or a new way
> > > to store the files....
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > Harold
> >
> > It is a file compressed with bzip2.
> >
> > Do 'bzip2 -d' to uncompress.

Its a tar file, try the I (uppercase i) switch of newer tar ( tar xfvI <archive>) instead of the familiar z (tar xfvz <archiv>, gzip compressed archive)
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