Originally ZIP files were created with MS-DOS command line software from PKWare, the two programs were PKZIP.EXE and PKUNZIP.EXE. I think you can still download PKUNZIP at the PKWare site here:
http://www.pkware.com/software-pkzip/dos-compression
The actual command line could look something like this:
C:\>pkunzip c:\myzipfile.zip c:\extracttothisfolder\
