Automatically uncompressing gzipped or pkzipped files usin..

Okay, there has gotta be an easy answer to this...

I have various large .html and .txt files stored on the Web server that
will be, due to their megabyte sizes, compressed either with gzip (.gz)
or pkzip/zip (.zip). I want to set up Web pages with HREF URLs that
reference these. In my httpd.conf, I have:

AddEncoding x-compress Z
AddEncoding x-gzip gz tgz

and I have tried various combinations of:

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
# Insert filter
AddInputFilter DEFLATE .gz
# or # SetInputFilter DEFLATE
</IfModule>

But every time I either access the URLs containing filenames like
'web_page.html.gz' or 'web_page.htm.zip', both MS Internet Exploder and
Firefox pop up the file-save window prompt. I understand that certain
UNIX/Xwindows browsers like (Mosaic/X 2.1+) can uncompress these on the
fly. But nearly all of the browsers that will be ccessing this internal
Web server will be MSIE on Windoze.

Is there a way to set up my Apache such that I can store the .htm/.html
and .txt files in compressed version using either gzip, compress, or
pkzip/zip and automatically displayed on MSIE?

TIA!!