[Ewrt-devel] Re: Question about the source

Mon Jun 21 10:19:20 PDT 2004

Whoops!  Sorry about that!

Good catch, Scott.  I changed the name of the file to .tar.gz and
updated the webpage.

Unix tip of the day:  To find out what kind of file you have without
looking at the extension, use the "file" command. 

-Irving

On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 17:33, Scott Tully wrote:
> Hey Chris-
> 
> I agree with Dan, something weird is goin on - atleast on my RH9 box...
> 
> The files do appear as bzip2's because they do have that extension but
> tar produces an error
> 
> [root at localhost root]# tar xvfj ewrt-0.2-beta1.tar.bz2
> bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
> tar: Child returned status 2
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> 
> Dan - Try 
> tar zxvf ewrt-0.2-beta1.tar.bz2
> 
> Appears as though they were gzip'ed with a bzip extention... At least
> that's what my RH9 system thinks... 
> 
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
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> ->The source file is a bzip2 so you need to use the following command:
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> ->tar -xvfj ewrt-0.2-beta1.tar.bz2
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