I forgot to tell ou : xaa to xcb are splited uuencodes, to get a full .tar.bz2 do the following : cat xaa > AfterStep.1.5.tar.bz2.uue cat xab >> AfterStep.1.5.tar.bz2.uue cat xac >> AfterStep.1.5.tar.bz2.uue (etc, you can use a shell script but pay attention to errors) Then type : uudecode AfterStep.1.5.tar.bz2.uue (then bunzip2 AfterStep-1.5.tar.bz2 ; tar -xvf AfterStep-1.5.tar) Bye Guylhem