Well, it is coming from an Windows environment but I am doing my work on a 
Linux box. I see 7z has a Linux port, so will try that. Thanks for all your 
help.
John

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>From: Chas. Owens [mailto:chas.ow...@gmail.com]
>It sounds like you are on a Win32 machine.  If so, download 7->zip* and 
>install it.  You should then be able to decompress >the files like this:

>my $file     = "foo.zip";
>my $password = "drowssap";
>system("c:/program files/7-zip/7z.exe", "x", "-p", $password, >$file) == 0
>    or die "an error occurred while trying to unzip $file";
>
>Warning, this is untested code, you may need to change things >slightly
>to get them to work.
>
>* http://www.7-zip.org/download.html
>--
>Chas. Owens

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