Dear Monks

I am trying to decode compressed files mainly of .gz and .z types!

To start off with I wrote this scripts to handle .gz file; 
#! c:/perl/bin/perl.exe
# By me- March 2007

use strict;
use Archive::Tar;
#use Archive::Zip;

system(cls);
my $tar = Archive::Tar->new();

opendir (DIR, $ARGV[0]) || die "\nHey, gimme a path to work with pleas
+e!\n";
my @dirs = readdir (DIR);
unlink ("$ARGV[0]\\modinfo.txt");
foreach my $dir (@dirs)
{
    next if ($dir eq '.' || $dir eq '..');
    
    $tar->read("$ARGV[0]\\$dir", 1);
    @_ = $tar->list_files();
    for my $modinfo (@_)
    {
        next unless ($modinfo =~ /modinfo.txt/);
        $tar->extract_file( $modinfo, "$ARGV[0]\\modinfo.txt");
        open(FILE,"$ARGV[0]\\modinfo.txt") || die "D'oh: need a lot of
+ help here!";
        chomp (my @stuff = <FILE>);
        for my $line (@stuff)
        {
            next unless ($line =~ /vx/);
            $line =~ s/^\s+//;
            $line =~ /(\w+)\s+(\w+)\s+(\w+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\w+)\s+
+\((.+)\)$/;
            printf "%s, %s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,(%s)\n",$dir,$1,$2,$3,$4,$5,
+$6,$7;
        }
    }    
}

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which works fine on the ".gz" but it can't handle ".z" files!

I tried Archive::Zip to no avail!

I began to look around here for posts that have delt with similar issues. The advice I got (tho it seems) that I should be using Comprees::Zlib. So I tried the following bit of code just to test, however its didn't work (i.e. it returned noise - exaclty similar to opening any binary file with a basic text editor)! 
#! c:/perl/bin/perl.exe
use strict;
use Compress::Zlib ;

my $gz = gzopen("c:\\eee.tar.z", "rb") || die "Cannot open c:\\eee.tar
+.z: $gzerrno\n" ;

while ($gz->gzreadline($_) > 0) {
            print ;
        }

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Can someone please help me out or shed a light on what I need to do in order to extract files from .z files?

Thanks
Blackadder

In reply to Decoding .z and .gz files by blackadder

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