Thanks for the info... Little confused with intentional input;
This is what I understand --> I catfile my zip to a forwarding directory and the next line qx the intended zip file?
My results are showing "The system cannot find the path specified". Not sure where the logic is failing me or if pkzip has problems with unc paths.
$pkzip=File::Spec->catfile'$data_file','to','$data_control_dir');
qx!$pkzip -extract -pass XM#ip82# $data_file!;