Feature Request: add peek into file

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Feature Request: add peek into file

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I have a zip file of a 1GB text log. Sometimes I need to peek into the first few lines just to make sure this is the correct file. When using View (F3) it decompresses the entire file which takes a long time. Please add a quick view option (maybe ALT+F3) that will only unzip the first 1KB (configurable?) and will open that in a viewer
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Re: Feature Request: add peek into file

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Try the Ulister plugin, it only displays the file list if invoked by View (F3) for me.
Works with zip and 7z archives but not with rar.
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Re: Feature Request: add peek into file

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I need to see the contents of the file in the zip not the file list of the zip. But I only need to peek at the start of the file. I am looking for a way to save the time of extraction of the whole file just to see I opened the wrong zip
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Re: Feature Request: add peek into file

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Thats partly also possible with ULister
Double click on a file in the list and you will get this file opened with the accociated tool.

I guess you will not find a tool or plugin which does exatcly what you want.
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Re: Feature Request: add peek into file

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That is why I asked for a feature to be added to TC internal viewer.
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Re: Feature Request: add peek into file

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DBug wrote: 2023-03-08, 16:53 UTC That is why I asked for a feature to be added to TC internal viewer.
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The asked feature CANT be added cause its just not possible to PARTIALLY extract files from an archive.
Neither Zip, Rar nor 7zip supports such a thing.
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Re: Feature Request: add peek into file

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2DBug
Some compressed formats (gz, xz) allow to work with an archive as a stream, but I'm not sure if any archiver can do the trick out-of-the-box. You should better ask 7-zip developer on Sourceforge.
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