Dear Sir/Madam, I am a graduate student of Microelectronics in the Dept. of ECE, Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore, INDIA. I downloaded the file of ALLIANCE for the Linux platform.However, I am not able to unzip it..a format error is being reported. I have downloaded the file a couple of times already, but I am getting the same error repeatedly. Could you please suggest a solution to the problem? Thanks, B G M Rao, Garduate Student, Dept. of ECE, IISc, Bangalore, INDIA. e-mail : bgmrao@protocol.ece.iisc.ernet.in