How do you unzip a WinZip file on Solaris?

How do you unzip a WinZip file on Solaris?

I tried tar -xvf, gzip -d and gunzip. None of them worked!

I suppose tar -zxvf filename would work. BTW what is your file extension for the ziped file? According to man documentation gunzip should work fine.


Sam

tgmk% ls
Example.zip
tgmk% gunzip Example.zip
gunzip: Example.zip: unknown suffix -- ignored
tgmk% tar -xvf Example.zip
tar: directory checksum error
tgmk% tar -zxvf Example.zip
tar: z: unknown option
Usage: tar {txruc}[vfbFXhiBEelmopwnq[0-7]] [-k size] [tapefile] [blocksize] [exclude-file] [-I include-file] f
iles ...

/usr/bin/unzip example.zip http://www.dbasupport.com/forums/

Thank you!

HI

I am not sure but I guess uncompress does work with windows zipped files on UNIX

sysntax is uncompress filename

regards