[Binari] reading tar.gz files

Does anybody have experience with reading archive files in Java without actually unpacking them on the drive? I have a butload of tar.gz's I need to read in, but I'm wondering how to do this efficiently / without having to fill up the entire group share (accidently deleting people's personal pic's and music along the way) Cheers, Sofie -- Sofie Van Landeghem PhD Student VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Technologiepark 927, 9052 Gent, BELGIUM Tel: +32 (0)9 331 36 95 Website: http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be