The distribution is in 4 parts, each in a separate message. Strip the headers off, including any blank lines at the beginning or end of the message body (but leave the last newline at the end), and put them in the following files: % ls -l piemenu.tar.Z.uu.part? -rw-r--r-- 1 don 92962 Nov 10 15:37 piemenu.tar.Z.uu.part1 -rw-r--r-- 1 don 93000 Nov 10 15:37 piemenu.tar.Z.uu.part2 -rw-r--r-- 1 don 93000 Nov 10 15:38 piemenu.tar.Z.uu.part3 -rw-r--r-- 1 don 71018 Nov 10 15:38 piemenu.tar.Z.uu.part4 Strip the headers and concatinate them: % cat piemenu.tar.Z.uu.part? > piemenu.tar.Z.uu to get: % ls -l piemenu.tar.Z.uu -rw-r--r-- 1 don 349980 Nov 10 15:34 piemenu.tar.Z.uu uudecode that: % uudecode piemenu.tar.Z.uu to get: % ls -l piemenu.tar.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 don 253995 Nov 10 15:31 piemenu.tar.Z uncompress that: % piemenu.tar.Z to get: % ls -l piemenu.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 don 442368 Nov 10 15:40 piemenu.tar untar that: % tar xfv piemenu.tar to get: % ls -l piemenu total 429 drwxr-xr-x 2 don 1024 Nov 10 15:24 ./ drwxr-xr-x 40 don 5632 Nov 10 15:34 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 don 3613 Nov 10 15:02 MESSAGE -rw-r--r-- 1 don 9210 Nov 10 15:24 calc-linear.can -rw-r--r-- 1 don 9194 Nov 10 15:24 calc-neat.can -rw-r--r-- 1 don 7521 Nov 10 15:24 calc-pie.can -rw-r--r-- 1 don 26283 Mar 28 1989 cookbook.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 don 28109 Mar 28 1989 empirical.paper -rw-r--r-- 1 don 2714 Nov 10 15:05 handymenu.ps -rw-r--r-- 1 don 27146 Nov 10 15:24 helv.can -rw-r--r-- 1 don 9772 Nov 10 15:24 move.can -rw-r--r-- 1 don 6660 Nov 10 15:05 neatwin.ps -rw-r--r-- 1 don 33619 Nov 10 15:09 piemenu-xnews.ps -rw-r--r-- 1 don 32722 Mar 28 1989 piemenu.ps -rw-r--r-- 1 don 34588 Mar 28 1989 piepaper.text -rw-r--r-- 1 don 3187 Mar 28 1989 precision.ps -rw-r--r-- 1 don 5590 Mar 28 1989 pullout.ps -rw-r--r-- 1 don 7813 Nov 10 15:09 quickwin-xnews.ps -rw-r--r-- 1 don 7821 Mar 28 1989 quickwin.ps -rw-r--r-- 1 don 10630 Mar 28 1989 sgipie.ps -rw-r--r-- 1 don 5051 Nov 10 15:05 snap.ps -rw-r--r-- 1 don 6626 Nov 10 15:18 spiralmenu.ps -rw-r--r-- 1 don 9562 Nov 10 15:24 stretch.can -rw-r--r-- 1 don 94284 Nov 10 15:24 sun.can -rw-r--r-- 1 don 25373 Nov 10 15:24 times.can -rw-r--r-- 1 don 4405 Mar 28 1989 usenix-summary -rw-r--r-- 1 don 9416 Nov 10 15:24 zap.can Here are the checksums for the intermediate files: % sum piemenu.tar piemenu.tar.Z piemenu.tar.Z.uu piemenu.tar.Z.uu.part? 09553 432 piemenu.tar 56364 249 piemenu.tar.Z 28011 342 piemenu.tar.Z.uu 10101 91 piemenu.tar.Z.uu.part1 65142 91 piemenu.tar.Z.uu.part2 36973 91 piemenu.tar.Z.uu.part3 49058 70 piemenu.tar.Z.uu.part4