On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:07:15 -0800, don-cs3 at isis.cs3-inc.com (Don Cohen) wrote: >The files I find at >ftp://oss.sgi.com/www/projects/kdb/download/ix86/ >are all .bz2 and yet when I try > tar xvfI kdb-v1.9-2.4.14.bz2 >I get > tar: This does not look like a tar archive Just use bunzip2, these are plain patch files that have been bzipped, they are not tar archives.