Suse 8 and tar+bzip2/gzip?

Hello I was stupid enough to install Suse 8, that seems to be either a tateless joke or Mandrake very cunning marketing plot, and I have experienced nothing but pain since then. At the moment I would like to get tar xfIv foo.tar.bz2 - or - tar xfzv bar.tar.gz to work, but no. No, I have to gunzip -c foo.tar.gz | tar xfv - Why Suse8 was shipped? This is certainly a very early alphaand bad one. --Jyry C:-( C:-/ C========8-O C8-/ C:-( M$-Outlook: Experience a new virus every day! - Koe uusi virus joka päivä!