Gibberish when unzipping files in Putty

Hello. I'm ingesting files from one system (db hosted on Solaris 10) to another (db hosted on Solaris 9). Files come in zipped, and contain various txt files, which I'll use SQL*Loader to load.
The unzipping, loading etc. is all handled in a ksh shell script. Sadly, we use Putty for all our unix work (and that's part of the problem I think). The files normally arrive at the target host in pairs. When I try to unzip the files, a load of gibberish is sent to the screen. Like this:
Code:
mv: cannot access C/$tf_peo_deals_1to1_20100121080000.txtíZ[oÛ8~`þ{2HÝ][m8¶×v:Í¡ØL¢©-²ü~¤dù¶ÈNçO:<¢(òð|<Wi:n&íÎ´7Ìz]9Åe9÷®f_OãñdÖG3ê§ÎÞh8
(that's only a fragment. The whole thing is like Lord of the Rings.)
This is a problem as we have associated trace files which our ops guys need to look at, and they're filling up to monstrous sizes with these strange characters. At a guess, I'd say this is due to differing character sets on the source and target machines, but I haven't a clue about how to resolve this.
Has anyone seen this before? Any feedback would be gratefully received.
Strangely, I don't see this problem when there is just one file to process, which is sad, as that's never the case.
Thanks,
Ray

Hmm, i doubt PuTTY is the problem here, have you tried running unzip from the console?
How are the files created?
Do you use any flags to unzip?
Does the content of the file looks ok if you look on it using unzip -l?
Can you extract then with 'jar' properly?
jar xf <zip file>
Lastly, if all else fails, you can always try to compile a newer version of unzip from www.info-zip.org
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