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It also can open/browse archive files without unpacking first.

• hulitu 3y ago
  It unpacks them in a temporary directory.
  • JNRowe 3y ago
    Depends on the archive type and how the vfs/extfs code was implemented for it¹. It also depends on how the archive is treated if it is compressed container, which can be seen by looking at how a .tar and .tar.xz are handled for example. The zip handler is probably the easiest to understand, as it doesn't need to contend with external compression wrappers and is a simple perl script. (In some cases it would probably be nicer if it did extract the entire archive to tmpfs, such as when you independently pull a few files from a massive .deb for example) Implementing your own extfs scripts to wrap a simple menu around some task can be really useful, far beyond basic archives. I wrote one so that I can shuffle my todo list priorities by moving fake "task files" in to different pseudo-directories. ¹ https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/tree/master/src/vfs/ https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/tree/master/src/vfs/