here's a useful little program that I designed specifically to be used with metamail capability for extracting compressed tar files. Here's the .mailcap entry: application/x-tar-gzip ; tktar %s ; label="Gzipped Tar File"; then when it gets piped into metamail, this program is launched automatically and lets you view the contents of the tar file and decide where to put it. If you wish to use the "Extract To:" button then you also need the dirbrowser utility. Doug Hughes doug@eng.auburn.edu doug@happy.vf.ge.com