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The first reply raises a good point -- your terminology seems a bit confused.

If you really do want to use GNU gzip-style compression to read and/or write files with gzip-compressed data, the easiest way to do this (IMO) is with PerlIO::gzip -- which makes use of the Perl 5.8.x "IO-layers":

#!/usr/bin/perl -w # (might as well make it "cross-platform") require 5.008 require PerlIO::gzip; open FIL, ">:gzip", "C:/test.gz" or die "oops: $!"; print FIL "This behaves like any other file handle, but output gets gz +ipped\n"; close FIL;
Note that PerlIO::gzip is not (yet) part of the Perl 5.8.x standard distribution (I wish it was) -- you have to get it from CPAN.

UPDATE: (2010-10-18) It seems that PerlIO::gzip should be viewed as superseded by PerlIO::via:gzip. (see PerlIO::gzip or PerlIO::via::gzip).


In reply to Re: Zip Enlightenment by graff
in thread Zip Enlightenment by SamCG

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