I suspect what you all are seeing is that what ever you are using to download just is decompressing the archive for you. Just use tar to extract the archive like so: Tar xf file.tar -----Original Message----- From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Hart Larry Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 5:53 AM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: My Ranger preferences Well Tony, I ran an ls -l here's what it says ls -l ranger_prefs.tar -rw------- 1 chime chime 70733 Jun 29 06:40 ranger_prefs.tar Also some1 else on this list clicked through from Mut like I did in Pine. I wouldn't think Pine would automaticly read contents of a .tar file as practicly regular text. Maybe it would be more universal creating a zip. Thanks in advance Hart _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup