> 	I can't get the damn file uncompressed!  I downloaded 
> pine3.91.tar.Z from ftp.cac.washington.edu and am attempting to 
> uncompress it to .tar format.

I don't know why you should do this; I mean uncompressing the file
before untarring.  You can certainly do:

tar xzvf pine3.91.tar.Z

> Everytime I do so, at one specific point, 
> it gives me a segmentation fault and core dumps.  I've repeated it 
> several times, with multiple copies of the file from 
> ftp.cac.washington.edu, and it always errors and leaves me with 
> pine3.91.tar with a size of exactly 17956864 bytes.

This is very weird...  Did you try gunzip instead?  Gunzip can uncompress
.Z files, too.

I'm getting the file just to see if I can reproduce the problem.

ken