> > Everytime I do so, at one specific point, 
> > it gives me a segmentation fault and core dumps.  I've repeated it 
> > several times, with multiple copies of the file from 
> > ftp.cac.washington.edu, and it always errors and leaves me with 
> > pine3.91.tar with a size of exactly 17956864 bytes.
> 
> This is very weird...  Did you try gunzip instead?  Gunzip can uncompress
> .Z files, too.
> 
> I'm getting the file just to see if I can reproduce the problem.

Nope, I can't reproduce the problem.  Both uncompress and gunzip work
fine with the file.  I got it from ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/.

ken