Notes on files and directory structure:

ate               : A-Shell Terminal Emulator
beta              : Releases intended for testing purposes only
bin-aix           : AIX binaries
bin-linux-el4     : Linux binaries (RHEL 4 / CentOS 4)
bin-linux-generic : Linux binaries (static linked under RH8)
bin-linux-rh8x    : Linux binaries (RH8)
bin-win           : Windows binaries
doc               : documentation files
dsk0              : directory tree containing recent updates of files on DSK0:
soslib            : consolidated Shared Open Source LIBrary packages 
zpdfx             : PDFX driver installation package


Package types:

.zip   : Windows updates intended to be extracted over the top of existing files

.exe   : Windows install packages; execute and follow instructions

.tz    : Linux updates intended to be extracted over the top of existing files
           To extract: 
               tar xvzf filename.tz

.tar.Z : AIX version of tz files. 
           To extract: 
               uncompress filename.tar.Z 
               tar xvf filename.tar

.bin   : UNIX complete release packages
           Copy to /tmp, then:
             for Linux:  cpio -iuB ash_install < package.bin
             for others: cpio -icuB ash_install < package.bin
             Then: ./ash_install