I have the need to compress some very large files >600MB. This need to be some standard compression such as gzip or bzip. I have looked at Compress::Bzip2 as well as some of the others on CPAN. The problem is that Bzip2 (as well as others) compresses a string, that means that I would have to read in the whole 600MB file, compress it then write it out. This just can't be done. It would use far too much memory on the box.

Anyone have another way I can do this without systeming out to bzip or gzip. This program will be placed on different boxes and the location of the system compression binaries will not always be in the same place or even in the path of the user. :(

In reply to compressing VERY LARGE files by gnu@perl

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