Document.tgz to read on Windoze

Cygwin

Cygwin - yup - a lot of messing about - (there must be a simpler way).

Anyway, I've got the pdf files open now and they are readable.

Mission accomplished - cheers. 8o

Ah ha, you don't have the unix box, so sorry, missunderstood.

Get a copy of Cygwin that'll have to tools you require in it.

www.cygwin.com/

rename the file to document.tar.gz and then load it into winzip.

Why not transfer to the unix box, gunzip and transfer the result back?

Because the 'unix box' belongs to SourceForge and I don't have any write access to it. I don't have a Unix (probably Linux) machine set up yet. I was hoping to read through all technical documentation before setting a Unix machine up. (The technical notes may well influence my choice of Linux).

All I know is that I need "x86/Linux", but futher hints and installation tips are contained in the document that is currently zipped. I'm no Linux wizz, but I'm guessing that I should be ok with Red Hat?

I really need to unzip this documentation. I could ftp it to a webserver I use, (which is Linux based), but I don't have telnet access which I assume I would need to run guzip on it?

Any ideas?

(Summary):

1) I need to unzip and read documentation.
2) I need to choose Linux version
3) I need to purchase machine and install correct Linux
4) I need to install code from SourceForge and carry out research/investigations.

It's a tar gzip

Why not transfer to the unix box, gunzip and transfer the result back?

I was interested in reading a .pdf file that has been packed-up on SourceForge as a document.tgz (tar-gun-zip?). Is there any easy way of unzipping this on a Windoze machine with access to a Unix host?

Any ideas? 8o