You can access the lrzsz sources through CVS, using something like export CVSROOT=:pserver:cvsread@tirka.ohse.de:/var/cvs-pub cvs login use `cvsread' as password cvs checkout lrzsz But you'll need the same automake version as i use (use finger to find which one i'm using at the moment: finger uwe-tool-versions@tirka.ohse.de ). The same might be true für autoconf and gettext. Automake _will_ be run because CVS garbles the timestamp of the files it checks out. You'll have to live with that. Tar archives and diffs of the cvs trees and are also available. See ftp://tirka.ohse.de/uwe/cvs-trees They share the same problems, though.