[thelist] opening .gz files in XP

[David Kaufman]

Hi Stuart,

Stuart Young <syoung at unitec.ac.nz> wrote:
> I have some users who need to open up a .gz archive file, but [...]
> they don't have administrator permission on their XP desktops so they
> can't install an archiving utility such as winzip.
> [...]
> There doesn't seem to be a command in DOS to gunzip, and our IT
> helpdesk have come back to me with a "job closed. can't be solved"

Interesting that a corporate IT Helpdesk doesn't give their users 
Winzip, and can't install it for them, but okay.

> Is there a windows archive utility that supports .gz files that
> doesn't need to be installed?

Yes.  Gzip, as others have mentioned.  You might also try: 
http://www.7-zip.org/

hth,

-dave