Re: Re: Portable in-memory files

Archive::Tar has built-in support to gzip its output files for you. Just specify that compression is true. See the description for the methods "new", "read", and "write": the second argument must be true.

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Re: Portable in-memory files by crenz (Priest) on Apr 07, 2003 at 10:19 UTC
Unfortunately, when looking at the source, I found out that the output is only compressed when going to a file. So that's not helpful for me.	[reply]
Re^4: Portable in-memory files (patch > workaround) by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Apr 07, 2003 at 15:42 UTC
Wouldn't it be easiest to just patch Archive::Tar and be done with it, rather than going through such horrible contortions? Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]