In order to unpack a zipfile, you will need the unzip utility, which can be compiled on most platforms. This is a gzipped tarfile. You might also find the zip utility useful. This is a zipfile.
If you have this utility, then you can unpack a zipfile by saving it into a file called, say, foo.zip and typing the following Unix command.
unzip fooThis will recover the file and directory structure of all the files within the zipfile as they were when the zipfile was created (usually, though not always, as files and subdirectories within the current directory).
If you want to know what is in a zipfile before unpacking it, type the following Unix command.
unzip -l fooMore information about zip and unzip is contained in the man files which accompany the distribution.
