Hi Stefan, > maybe the DOS-versions of gzip and tar will do it too. gzip can be found at > http://bandersnatch.fnr.umass.edu/gap/compression.html thanks for your hints. But I'm afraid that the DOS-versions won't handle the non-DOS-8.3-filenames in the tar-balls correctly. Nevertheless, George Monahan told me today, that he succeeded in unpacking and running xindy on Windows98. Now, we can add Windows98 to the list of platforms xindy is running on. CU Joerg