<h1><img src="/icons/nb.gif" alt="[meaningless icon]" /> Nota Bene (updated 30 Jun '97) <img src="/icons/nb.gif" alt="[meaningless icon]" /></h1> <p>Frequent complaint regarding multipart files:</p> <blockquote>"when i retrieve them, the files gain a lot of junk at the beginning and end (things like ^@ all over)"</blockquote> <p> <b>Source links</b> point to compressed (gzipped) files. For papers without figures, this file is just the gzipped text. If the paper has several parts, e.g. TeX + multiple figures, they will be bundled together in a single gzipped tar file for downloading.</p> <p> You can recognize a tar file by the binary headers (^@ characters) at the top of the file, followed by ordinary text. For info on unpacking tar files, see our <a href="/help/unpack">unpacking help page</a>. </p> <p> Most unix web browsers will uncompress gzipped files but not untar them. Thus for multi-part files you need to use the <b>tar</b> command to unpack individual TeX and PostScript files from the single file you download. On Windows and Macintosh you will need to uncompress and untar (because Windows and Macintosh browsers do not uncompress automatically). </p> <p> <b>Postscript links</b> are sent out as compressed (gzipped) postscript files, and your browser <a href="/help/config_browser">needs to be configured to handle this</a>. </p> <p>Further information can be found in our <em><a href="/help/faq">Frequently Asked Questions</a></em> pages.</p>