Since you have not specified what environment (WinBloze, *nix, *ix or Macinsquash) I am going to answer with a *nix filter.

To directly answer your question: 

  | hand waving here...
         system("tar cf tarfile.tar file1 file2 ... filen");
         system("gzip -S tgz tarfile.tar");

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But wait! I'm not going to let you off the hook that easily.

If you are running in a *nix environment you can install modules on your environment by putting them someplace in your HOME directory and then referencing that location with the use lib pragma. WinBloze I can't answer for since I don't do windows.

Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
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In reply to Re: Creating a tgz file without a module by blue_cowdawg
in thread Creating a tgz file without a module by rspishock

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