pax -o to=IBM-1047,from=ISO8859-1 -r < latest.tar
+or
+
+ zcat latest.tar.Z | pax -o to=IBM-1047,from=ISO8859-1 -r
+
If you get lots of errors of the form
tar: FSUM7171 ...: cannot set uid/gid: EDC5139I Operation not permitted.
- tar: FSUM7148 cannot create file "...": EDC5111I Permission denied.
you didn't read the above and tried to use tar instead of pax, you'll
first have to remove the (now corrupt) perl directory
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