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[Paul J. Sanchez]

sorry to waste bandwidth, but i tried e-mail and my mailer couldn't
figure out where you are.

from your description, it looks as though the files were split by the
"split" command.  they should be "cat"ed back together before
uncompressing and untarring.  if you want to see the contents without
actually physically joining them, you can pipe a series of commands to
achieve your objective.  try

cat TeX3.0.tar.Z* | zcat | tar tvf -

to see a listing of the distribution.  to actually unpack, do exactly
the same pipeline but substitute "xvf" for "tvf".  don't forget that
dash at the end...

good luck, let me know if you have problems.
--paul
paul at music.sie.arizona.edu