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Nathan, I've read a number of other replies to your question. Only one seems to have come close to the idea you need. {Qualifications: I work with UNIX every day, as a "support" provider for my company. This means people come to me with their problems and I (try to!) provide answers.} The standard unix tar utility allows you to specify the file and/or device that contains the tar archive. The option in question is the "f" option. Thus, if you can get the archive onto your system *as*a*normal*file*, then the "tar" command should be able to unpack it. tar tvf tarfile .. will provide a listing of all the files contained in the archive. tar xvf tarfile .. will extract all the files in the archive into that directory, creating whatever subdirectories are needed. So, you see you don't have to have the archive created directly on a disk. You should be able to list/extract/create tar archives on any medium, as normal files. Caveat: I've had no occasion to actually use the Amiga version of the tar command. It may be in porting it that the person doing so had to make a choice between supporting devices and supporting both devices and files. I do hope that is NOT the case… Good Luck! Edwin Wiles – elw@netx.com (I got a *domain*!) – Software Engineer