According to Markus Baeurle:
> 
> Using Stuttgart is rather nerving because they pack every file (most probably
> because they're using mirror) apart from the obvious ones, so you get
> base.00.gz and base.01.gz and so on which means additional work unpacking them
> again (but not unpacking something which shouldn't), so I still get my stuff
> ....

Hello Markus,

The FTP-Server in Stuttgart can do packing/unpacking on the fly, just leave
the ".gz" away from the filenames you want to get e.g. base.00 or base.01
and you will get them unziped (that is:  only one time ziped as they are
splitted zipped tar-files :-)


Gewert

(had this problem/question some time ago and ask them in stuttgart about
unpacking the files and they told me this 'trick')