file transfer problems

[Colin Lythall]

After transferring many, many megabytes of files from a UNIX box to my AUX
machine via an intermediate hop through a Mac, I find the file.Z files
corrupted somehow.  The scenario is:

Files compressed up with compress on an Ultrix box
Transferred to a Mac using NCSA Telnet with MacBinary checked
Archived onto an Apple Tape SC40 in Mac format
Retrieved from Tape onto Mac floppies
Read into the AUX system from floppy.

Trying to uncompress the .Z files either produces a corrupted result
(some sort of regular permutation of characters) or uncompress refuses to
work on the file.

Files which are binary but not compressed (ie tar files) transfer OK.
I not sure if this i valid but fcnvt says the .tar files are MacBinary but
says the .Z files are AppleSingle format.  All files were transferred in one
(very long) session with MacBinary on.
Similar results occur with Kermit (binary) transfers direct to the AUX box.

(a) what did I do wrong?  Is MAcBinary not the correct format?
(b) ** most important ** how can I modify/fix/convert these files to function
correctly.  I have about 40Mb+ of files in compressed form on tape.  It is
infeasible to retransfer the files in non-compressed form.  HELP!

All help gratefully received  :-)
regards
Colin Lythall	colin at citrus.citr.uq.oz.au