On 23 Oct 2020, 11:20a, Wilfred van Velzen said the following...
 
 Wv>   -j, --bzip2
 Wv>               filter the archive through bzip2
 Wv> 
 Wv> So use 'y' instead of 'z'...

Thanks Wilfred. I was able to get it with tar -xf. 

I've never had problems like that with a .bz2 file before...


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