Miscellaneous Questions
Miscellaneous Questions
There can be some questions we can't put into other
categories. Here you can find them.
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. 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.
If you would not like to use a command line tool, you can try the
free Stuffit Expander available
for any operating system. If you have
WinRAR, 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.