i have a .pdf file that was gzip'd on a 64-bit Sun machine. i tried to gunzip from my linux with no luck it complained with: gunzip: myfile.pdf.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated is there a way to get around this problem. thanks pd -- "As a general rule, if you have trouble with the binary system, then probably it is because you do not really understand the decimal system ..." R.W. Hamming