[BusyBox] bzcat foo.bz2 | tar -x

[Thomas Lundquist]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 05:24:45PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> 
> It turns out that busybox tar was being too picky about short
> reads (which are typical when reading from pipes such as stdin)
> and was therefore giving up too easily.  The fix was simple
> however, busybox tar just needed to keep reading until it either
> read an entire tar block or until there was an error.
> Fortunately, we already have a function to do that..

so, that this worked with the bzcat from the bzip2 package was some sort
of a coincidence.. :=)

> Care to try once again with the latest and greatest?

worked like a charm. thank you.


Thomas.