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James Miller wrote:
> 
> one quick and easy way to handle .zip (and tar.gz and
> possibly other compressed formats) is to use a version 
> of MC (midnight commander) that has support for 
> decompressing enabled.  

I suspect that mc calls the tar and unzip executables to 
do that.  I would be surprised to find that mc has those 
capabilities built in.

> In any case, with such a version of MC, you only need to
> navigate to the file in question, highlight it and hit 
> "enter."  The file is then shown its uncompressed form 
> (often as a directory containing files and subdirectories) 

links can do the same thing.  You just add a couple of 
lines in links.cfg to call unzip:
-----------------------------------------------------------
extension "zip" "application/zip"
association "unzip" "application/zip" "unzip -l %|less" 1 1
-----------------------------------------------------------

Cheers,
Steven