I am a UNIX user. I guess one cannot view the files, say the file
names or the contents of the desired files inside a gzipped file
without extracting it. So, can we try on it?
You imply that gzip is like zip, i.e., an archive of files. This is not
the case. It is merely a compression format.
You can get the information that gzip stores about the uncompressed file
with zcat -l. For instance:
$ \zcat -l somefile.gz
compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name
3143 9780 68.1% somefile
Hope this helps,
Karl
