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How can I handle the bz2 compressed manuals on Windows?
If you don't have an archiver-tool to handle bz2 files
download the commandline tool
from Redhat (please find further information below).
If you would not like to use a command line tool, you can try free
tools like Stuffit Expander,
UltimateZip,
7-Zip, or
Quick Zip. If you
have tools like WinRAR or
Power Archiver, you can
easily decompress the bz2 files with it. If you use Windows Commander,
a bz2 plugin for that program is available freely from the
Windows Commander site.
The bzip2 commandline tool from Redhat:
Win2k Sp2 users grab the latest version 1.0.2, all
other Windows user should grab version 1.00. After downloading rename
the executable to bzip2.exe. For convenience put it into a directory in
your path, e.g. C:\Windows where C represents your windows installation
drive.
Note: lang stands for your language and x for the desired format, e.g.: pdf.
To uncompress the php_manual_lang.x.bz2 follow these simple instructions:
open a command prompt window
cd to the folder where you stored the
downloaded php_manual_lang.x.bz2
invoke bzip2 -d php_manual_lang.x.bz2, extracting
php_manual_lang.x in the same folder
In case you downloaded the php_manual_lang.tar.bz2 with many html-files
in it, the procedure is the same. The only difference is that you got a file
php_manual_lang.tar. The tar format is known to be treated with most
common archivers on Windows like e.g.
WinZip.
