bz2 and other arcane formats

[creativewombat]

so let me begin by saying i am a huge QS fan. I have been reading
through the guides for years and its a critical core of my working
environment. that being said, i am still a pedestrian power user, by
no means fluid on the command line but use QS fluidly. This may seem
like a small rant, but I simply wanted to install QS on some MAC
laptops I have on my LAN. I wen tto the BTree site and the downloads
are in bz2 format.
Long story short - why do everytime I turn around QS is some fricken
srcane file format that I have to chade around the web to get
unarchived. For chirst sake - even the conversion web base sites dont
support it. Yes, I have trolled the boards, tried different apps and
even gone to support groups - apparently there are a lot of people
having the same problem. I mean how hard could it be to post a zip or
a RAR - ???
So, heres what really confuses me - in the greater vision of getting
QS wider visibility and support - why does this keep happening. It is
both frustrating and confusing that BTree would consistently not cater
to the super-geek to get apps running.
In the meantime - if anyone has any fixes - please respond because i
simply can't get QS 54 unarchived.

[creativewombat]

i hate to reply to my own post - but for the sanity of other users
there is a mention in the FAQs about .bz2 file formats.
They advise to simply change the extension to a plain .dmg and you
should be able to decompress and mount from there.
It worked for me and I am up and running.
I still dont understand why BTree would publsih under an arcane format
that has a world of threads on its own ===
anyone >?

[Rob McBroom]

On Mar 16, 2010, at 2:39 AM, creativewombat wrote:

> I wen tto the BTree site and the downloads are in bz2 format.

I can’t find anything other than `.dmg` files at blacktree.com. Where are you looking?

Also, I’m able to decompress `.bz2` files just by double-clicking them in the Finder. What version of the OS are you running?

--
Rob McBroom
<http://www.skurfer.com/>

[Eris]

Bzip2 is supported natively by Mac OS X natively and is far from
"arcane". I'm kind of surprised you haven't been able to find anything
on the interwebs to extract it since it's pretty much ubiquitous
outside of Windows.

Your problem isn't bzip2 itself, though. Your web browser (Firefox?)
has misidentified a bzip2-compressed disk image (again, perfectly
native to ) and given it the wrong file name. The disk image mounter
is not able to mount an image that has been decompressed, probably
because there's some subtle difference in the format, but maybe
because there's a header that bzip2 is discarding as garbage. Just
rename the file and everything will be ok, and file a bug report with
whomever makes your browser telling them about the problem.

[huiii]

and dig into terminal command-line tool 'tar'
$ man tar

[Eris]

No need to bother non-power users with unix utilities—the archive
helper that comes with OS X does the right thing from the Finder. As
much as I love the terminal, it's not for everybody. :)