This may sound a bit silly but I use a make dist and one line in Makefile.PL to do that archiving for me. 
use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
#yada yada
WriteMakefile(
    'NAME'              => 'Foo::Bar',
    'VERSION_FROM'      => 'Bar.pm', # finds $VERSION
    'PREREQ_PM'         => {}, # e.g., Module::Name => 1.1
    ($] >= 5.005 ?    ## Add these new keywords supported since 5.005
      (ABSTRACT_FROM => 'Bar.pm', # retrieve abstract from module
       AUTHOR     => '') : ()),
    'dist'        => {COMPRESS=>'gzip',SUFFIX=>'gz'},   
);

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After a perl Makefile.PL, I just make dist and run to PAUSE to upload the tarball.

HTH

Greetz
Beatnik
... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.

In reply to Re: gzipped tarballs, CPAN, winzip, and all that by Beatnik
in thread gzipped tarballs, CPAN, winzip, and all that by John M. Dlugosz

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