Opening Zip entries as random access files

Hello,

Is it possible to access the contents of zip files in a random access manner? ZipFile.getInputStream(ZipEntry) only gives a sequential stream. What can I do to access the middle of entries in a zip file? I need to access the middle of multiple entries in the zip file multiple times, so having to scan through each file can be quite a performance hit. And I can't fit the entire zip file in memory (I tried, but it's very large, and that slowed everything tremendously because it was using swap).

Thank you,

clum

[546 byte] By [cluma] at [2007-11-27 11:55:46]