I came across the same problem while building Archive::Tar on Win2K, Visual Studio 6.

I fixed the same line in _get_handle, but as:
    $fh = Compress::Zlib::gzopen ($fh, $mode)
        or &_drat;

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(since gzopen will actually call gzdopen for file handles)

This brought me to the same place as you, failing on test 6.

At this point, the dummy.tar file is produced--though it should really be named dummy.tar.gz. I was successfully able to unzip and view it in WinZip.

BUT, after looking at the code for Tar.pm... it appears the error is that some subs allow you to specify a $compress flag, while others don't. The result (as I believe) is that get_content doesn't tell _get_handle that the file is compressed. So, _get_handle returns undef, which breaks the code.

I looked on CPAN, and noticed that this module is only in its alpha stages though--so I guess you can just wait and hope that the beta is better. :-)

print(map(lc(chr),split(6,qw/99672682673683684689632658645641610607/)));

In reply to Re: Archive::Tar, TK failures for 5.8.0RC1 on Win32 by csotzing
in thread Archive::Tar, TK failures for 5.8.0RC1 on Win32 by alien_life_form

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