I believe you need to use the gzopen function, instead of open to put the right header and stuff needed to make it a .gz file. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Compress::Zlib;
use strict;

# see also the source to Tie::Gzip which demonstrates  
# (un)gzip using Compress::Zlib if installed. 

foreach my $f ( grep { -f } @ARGV ) {
    my ( $buffer, $gz );
    if ( $f =~ /gz$/ ) {
        ( my $rtf = $f ) =~ s/(.)gz$//;
        open OOT, ">$rtf" or die "$0:$rtf:$!";
        binmode OOT;
        $gz = gzopen( $f, "rb" ) or die "$0:$gzerrno:$!";
        print OOT $buffer while $gz->gzread($buffer) > 0;
        die "$f: $gzerrno:$!" if $gzerrno != Z_STREAM_END;
        $gz->gzclose();
        close(OOT);
    }
    else {    # gzip our file 
        open COOT, "$f" or die "$0:$f:$!";
        binmode COOT;
        $gz = gzopen( "$f.gz", "wb" )
          or die "$0:$gzerrno:$!";
        while (<COOT>) {
            $gz->gzwrite($_) or die "$f.gz,$gzerrno:$!";
        }
        $gz->gzclose;
    }
}

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In reply to Re: Compress::Zlib : what to do with the "in memory" data ? by zentara
in thread Compress::Zlib : what to do with the "in memory" data ? by ZlR

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