> The source code found heere http://www.holgerschurig.de/destar.html > is in an unsupported TAR format. It isn't. It's tarred and bzip2'd. If your tar can't do this, then you can resort to this: bzip2 -d *.tar.bz2 | tar xv But tar nowaday has the "j" option for bzip2 and the "z" option to gzip.