read zipfile sequentially?

[Alan G Isaac]

I have a large ASCII data set that is zipped to a reasonable size.
Can I access the data without decompressing the whole file first?
I would like to run through the data to produce a much smaller
extract and some summary statistics, but without unzipping
it (if that is even possible).
Thanks,
Alan Isaac
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