> I was afraid that would be the answer. There is actually a more compressed > version, with a bz suffix; it is *only* about 10 Meg. But how do you > decompress this? Get bz2cat/bunzip/bzip2, from the bzip2 package. bz2cat will decompress to stdout, much like zcat. Useful for patches and compressed text. bunzip work much like gunzip. For .tar.bz2 files, use the -I option to tar. tar will then use bzip2 as necessary - if you have it. Helge Hafting