OK, you're all tangled up in permissions here. Try this: gunzip Zope-2.1.3.src.tgz If that works, you should have a file Zope-2.1.3.src.tar where the other file "used to be" then you can *try*: tar xvf Zope-2.1.3.src.tar You may get the same error message you did before. This means that you need to "get root" via "su", change the permissions on the "holding directory" so your user can write to that directory. An *excellent* book to pick up to know more about almost anything in Linux/UNIX is Unix Power Tools by O'Reilly Books. It's almost required reading if you're just getting started with UNIX. It also has an excellent section on file permissions and how they work. addyd@unk.edu wrote:

Thanks for the suggestions! Unfortunately, tar -zxvf Zope-2.1.3.src.tgz results in a million "Could not create directory. No such file or directory"

??? I must still be missing something very obvious...

Darren Addy University of Nebraska at Kearney

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