Re: Unpacking VIM

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel shellworld net>]

Your options are out of order.
tar xzf filename.bz2
though should work a bit better.

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On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Hello,
> I just downloaded vim-6.1.tar.bz2 . When I run
> tar xfz vim-6.1.tar.bz2
> I get an error message saying it is not in gzip format. When I run
> tar xf vim-6.1.tar.bz2
> I get a message saying that it does not look like a tar file. What gives?
> Thanks.
> John
>
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