in reply to Re: Re: Portable in-memory files
in thread Portable in-memory files

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.

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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.