How to read a tarball

[Ed Greshko]

Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Todd,
> 
>> What program creates .jz/jz2 tarballs?
> 
> Sorry, that was my mistake.  They should be .gz/.bz2
> 
> $ less filename.bz2 
> 
> only displayed binary codes.

Ahhh...  filename.bz2 is a compressed "filename".  It probably isn't a
tar file or text file.  Not every file is "readable" in plain text.

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