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[Richard Smith]

Robin Woolley wrote:

> I've used 7zip on occasion and that is not the problem. The problem is that 
> the txt file lies at the bottom of a pit of eight sub-directories. There must 
> be an easier way!

That's not correct.  The gzip format is a compression 
format, not an archive format, and as such has no notion of 
file names, directory structures, or similar.  If you are 
seing it in a deep directory hierarchy, that is a feature 
(or bug) of the zip progam you are using.

RAS