Hi. The problem is that my server does not have the neccesary modules for me to read a gzip'ed file. I have tried 'use'ing several of the zip/compressing modules at cpan and none of them are installed. Since I do not have access to the server other than to my user folder, I need to know if there is anyway of uploading a module and using it from my user directory without really installing it into perl.

OR...     If the above is not possible, I could find a way to include the code in a normal perl script. It would be acceptable to simply inflate the file to another one and save it, but I think the program might run faster if I can read straight from the gzip'ed file as I think the bottleneck is accessing the file, not the CPU. But still right now I'd just like to get it to work. Many Thanks in advance.

In reply to reading a gzip'ed file by Scott203

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