Problems with compressed files from ftp sites

[The Evil Mel Fujitsu]

I'm not sure if this is a popular problem or not, but here goes.

I was trying to get tar sources from an ftp site.  They were compressed,
no problem.  I ftp'd 'em to a local site (uhnix1), then downloaded them
to my 3b1 via kermit.

The file.Z, was about 60K or so.  (Maybe 40K?).  After a compress -d, it
was up in the 2-4 megabyte range.  The first block was a normal shar file,
then there was nothing but garbage characters.  There were no errors of
any sort during either of the file xfers, or the decompression..

Any hints?


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