>>What if I want to extract the files into ram, without passing for a file?
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>you either go only half way (using a RAMdisc) or look at the sources of zlib, which is at the heart of many products. My guess is you are concerned with time needed and that those problems are more with the decompress/extract step, less with piping into a file and hanging the file into a dir structure

I normally do alone.
I wonder when I have little time.