[MLUG] opening file.tar.gz under Windows while skipping file.tar

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I have .tar.gz files that expand from about 79 MB to about 900 MB.  It 
looks like under Linux, Cygwin, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and probably some other 
unix systems, we can use this shorthand approach:

tar zxvf file.tar.gz

And under lamer systems like Solaris, we can do this:

gunzip -c file.tar.gz | tar xvf -

Either way, we avoid creating file.tar, which is a huge file.  How can we 
do this correctly under Windows?  I'm thinking of telling people this:

  If you are using Windows, I recommend that you either install Linux
  with Windows in a dual-boot configuration or run Cygwin under Windows,
  but if those ideas are unappealng, the program "7-zip" will work for you.

But I find that 7-zip wants to make file.tar, then extract files from 
file.tar.  That's not the best way to do it.

So here's the question:  What Windows program will do the gunzip/extract 
in one step without creating the file.tar file?  If 7-zip can do it, what 
is the trick?

Thanks in advance.

Mike

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