George wrote:
>
> for a windows XP pro machine (don't all flame me at once), I'm
> looking for an unzip utility that
> 1.) has a command line interface
> 2.) can unzip contents to a PIPE
> 3.) can unzip GZ archives.
>
> I've tried
>
> a) winzip: it's GUI can extract GZ archives, but the command line
> version does not work on GZ files
>
> b) unzip utility that ships with oracle has good command line
> switches, can unzip to a PIPE, but only works with ZIP files
> and not GZ files.
>
> any utility out there that can handle all three requirements
> above,

Get zip and unzip from:

<http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/>

and you can get gzip many places. I'm not sure where mine came
from. They all handle pipes on windoze properly.

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