Hi Monks,

Hopefully you can help me with a problem.

I need to perform and achive from a database to disk (on windows) using the dbs archive utility. Normally this wouldn't be a problem only i don't have enough disk to hold the uncompressed archive.

The target file is referenced in the archive utility script like this:

FILE=filename

I can however map this filename to another using one of the tools environment variables, if that makes any difference?

I usually call the archive tool via a filehandle and here doc in perl. So do any of you holy men know of a way i can stream the data from my application straight into gzip (the backup utility writes to a file by default) or any other compression tool? I know a named pipe in Unix would do it but i don't think that it works quite the same in Win32::Pipe.

Many Thanks, TeraMarv.

In reply to Stream data from application to Gzip by TeraMarv

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