tar in: BusyBox v0.61.pre (2001.09.29-00:43+0000) multi-call binary will handle: bzcat add.bz2 | ./busybox tar -x but lately (at least a month) this hasn't worked, it does not extract anything. I checked with the cvs comments and it may have been the 1.127 revision, which seems to have changed a bit of code. Thomas.