solaris 10, why don't you unzip nicely?

so, i try to unzip an archive, provided to me by sun, and i get the joyous:

didn't find end-of-central-dir signature at end of central dir

that's sort of evil. what to do?
go to a linux box and...

$ unzip -q 10_Recommended.zip
$ tar cf - 10_Recommended | gzip > 10_Recommended.tgz

and then scp that junk over and use tar xvfz on that bad sun box. if you see this:

tar: ././@LongLink: typeflag 'L' not recognized, converting to regular file

oops. just use your friend:

/usr/sfw/bin/gtar

or! just use the -format ustar when creating the tarball.
or! just scp over the unzipped directory and burn some candles or something.