Seems that Netscape, in certain styles of downloads will unzip (as in gunzip) the file as it comes. Thus you are left with a tarred file but still retaining the original gz extension. Just use a tar xvf xxxx at that point. That's what happened to me, anyway. ---------------------------------- Arlen Carlson adcarlso@visinet.ca Prof: So the American government went to IBM to come up with a data encryption standard and they came up with ... Student: EBCDIC!" This message was sent by XFmail (Linux) -o) /\\ _\_v The penguins are coming... the penguins are coming... ---------------------------------- - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>