On June 9, you wrote:
> I've found what I assume to be the sources.  How do I read them?.  I have
> several directories with a number of files named gsrc11.aa and so on.
> 
> These do not appear to be tar archives, what do I do to them to unpack them?.

  Huh?  Sounds like you've found the sources to FreeBSD, not NetBSD.
Try ftp.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD-current/tar_files/src.


                 -Dave McGuire
                  mcguire@digex.net