As the title states, I have a few large archives (currently in .7z and .tar.gz format) stored on a remote location which I access via sshfs. I often find myself needing to extract one or two files from these archives and the default archive manager in ubuntu seems to extract/read the whole file in the background first before I get the file I want.

I'd like a list of the possible formats that does not do this. In other words, I'd like to be able to extract a file from a large archive without any delay.