First, you need the bzip2 package. Get it from your favourite FTP site if you haven't already got one. Next, to view the contents, simply do this:
$ bzip2 -cd files.tar.bz2 | tar tvf - |
To extract, do this instead:
$ bzip2 -cd files.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - |
Of course, you can also use something like:
"tar --use-compress-program bzip2 -xvf files.tar.bz2" |
tar -xjvf linux-2.6.25.tar.bz2 -C /usr/src