in reply to decompressing tar.Z files

The other monks are correct in suggesting that the best way to do this is via CPAN, but if for whatever reason you can't install a module, this is how you'd do this in a shell:
[jon@nooky jon]$ zcat foo.tar.Z | tar xvf


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