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Thread: How do you unzip a WinZip file on Solaris?

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    How do you unzip a WinZip file on Solaris?

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

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    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
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    Sam



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    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 ...

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    /usr/bin/unzip example.zip
    Jeff Hunter

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    Talking

    Thank you!

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    HI

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

    sysntax is uncompress filename

    regards


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