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
snip >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