I can post a 5000-line script with 'use strict' or a 200-line script without it

Are you seriously saying that you think it would require you to add 4800 lines -- +2500% -- to make your code strict and warnings compliant?

If so, wow. Where on earth did you get such a grossly mistaken impression?

Once I corrected s/$y/$zlib/, I ran perl -C on your code and got:

C:\test>perl -c junk1.pl
Global symbol "$EINTR" requires explicit package name at junk1.pl line
+ 133.
Global symbol "$EINTR" requires explicit package name at junk1.pl line
+ 134.
Global symbol "$EINTR" requires explicit package name at junk1.pl line
+ 177.
Global symbol "$EINTR" requires explicit package name at junk1.pl line
+ 178.
junk1.pl had compilation errors.

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So then I added our $EINTR; at the top and got:

C:\test>perl -c junk1.pl
junk1.pl syntax OK

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And if your response to corion is correct and making the first change (which strict & warnings would have found for you), and your code worked, then is typing one extra line to make your code S&M compliant too much work to save you "months" of frustration?

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In reply to Re^5: Can't decompress zlib compression stream with Compress:Zlib by BrowserUk
in thread Can't decompress zlib compression stream with Compress:Zlib by Anonymous Monk

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