uuencoded gzipped tar file. On a UNIX machine this script will unpack itself. Just strip away any mail header and call the resulting file, say, kpz.uu Then say: /bin/sh kpz.uu This produces the files kpz.tex and domain.eps. Otherwise, to handle the procedure manually, say uuencode kpz.uu gunzip kpz.tar.gz tar -xvf kpz.tar BODY #!/bin/sh uudecode "$0" gunzip -c kpz.tar.gz |tar -xvf - /bin/rm "$0" kpz.tar.gz exit