For your convenience, the compressed tarred files of the pre-built files have been provided. They are tarred with the option '-p', which means the appropriate permissions/modes of the executable files have been kept the way they're supposed to be. Compress and its inverse uncompress/zcat are a standard part of AIX. All executable distributions are made from /usr/local, please check the paths in the tar file (zcat |tar tvf -) before you extract the contents, just to make sure that you're getting what you think you're getting. Since some programs need the right permission to run properly (for example: elm needs to be set group id to 'mail'), when you get the package from ..../exec/[product].[version].tar.Z please untar it with '-p' option. zcat [product].[version].tar.Z| (cd /; tar xvpf -) Some browsers mung the filename (the .Z may dissapear) some uncompress the file for you (there are people who consider this a misfeature). If zcat complains that the file is NOT compressed use cat instead, or specify the path to the tar file; ( cd /; tar xvpf /full/path/to/[product].[version].tar) Don't forget to add /usr/local/bin to your path (or PATH). csh and tcsh users are reminded to rehash after installing packages to ensure that the new programs can be found. For any Xwindows PD with application default file, you might get the warnings about fonts or color not found. If so, you might want to modify the application default file to suit to your fonts and colors set, or you might like to try the fonts set in X11R5 instead of the one goes with the system. (*) If you are using X11R5 libraries of IBM instead of MIT, then you might get problem with dynamic links at the run time. If so, please rebuild the software from the source codes (refer to README_X11R5_Stuff ). Thanks for using aixpdslib. ------------------------------- library@aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu Last update 09Oct00, Changed comments about browser unpacking. update 19Jan00, Specific instructions for unpacking, comments browsers and uncompressed downloads or renamed target files. update 30Jul96, To clarify instructions for checking contents.