"Steven Schweda" <sms.antinode at gmail.com> wrote in message news:3fa0e2f7-5ba2-4e89-8317-129d621c0123 at v36g2000yqv.googlegroups.com... The first step may be to figure out what made them. Hypothesis 1 seems to be a loser. file reports that they are VMS compressed files. Is there a linux or windows utility though that can uncompress them. Bill