Yes, by typing PKUNZIP and the ZIP file that you want to extract as a parameter. It will extract all the files in the current path.

1PKUNZIP example.zip

To extract a ZIP file that has folders properly:

1PKUNZIP /D example.zip

The /D command line switch is for recreating the directory structure inside the ZIP file.

Tip: Put the PKUNZIP executable into one of the folders that are in the PATH environment variable so you can run it anywhere.

Gmlb256 wrote on 2023-10-15, 16:20:

Tip: Put the PKUNZIP executable into one of the folders that are in the PATH environment variable so you can run it anywhere.

i put PKUNZIP.EXE on C:\DOS by default PATH on autoexec.bat file and it runs fine.

yep, I dump it in c:\dos as well
Only thing to add to what gmlb256 said is if you want to extract to a specific folder add that to the end of his command, eg
PKUNZIP /D example.zip c:\games\example
this will unzip everything into the folder c:\games\example but the folder does have to exist first.

I've got it in c:\tools directory. It's in the "path" variable in autoexec.bat, along with other directories.

path=c:\dos;c:\tools;c:\pctools;c:\windows;c:\pcgeos20;
temp=c:\temp

Other tools in there are pkzip, arc, lharc etc.
Along with things like Norton Commander, drivers, diagnostic programs, benchmarks etc.

The positive thing about c:\dos is that it's hard-coded into DOS kind of.
If you press F5 during boot and skip processing start-up files, the path is still known.