Re: Using WINZIP or others from Perl

I personally would use Archive::ZIP http://cpan.perl.org/authors/id/N/NE/NEDKONZ/Archive-Zip-1.09.readme

The Archive::Zip module allows a Perl program to create, manipulate, read, and write Zip archive files.

Zip archives can be created, or you can read from existing zip files. Once created, they can be written to files, streams, or strings.

Hope it helps
UnderMine

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Re: Re: Using WINZIP or others from Perl by nimdokk (Vicar) on Mar 12, 2004 at 13:28 UTC
Archive::Zip is great, unless you have to deal with password protected Zip files, in which case, it won't work. And if I remember correctly, the author is not going to implement it either because of encryption schemes (can't remember where I saw that though). But, if you don't need to worry about passwords, then it could be quite useful. I'm looking at possibly implementing it for some of our stuff that does not require passwords to extract the file. "Ex Libris un Peut de Tout"	[reply]

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Re: Re: Using WINZIP or others from Perl
by nimdokk (Vicar) on Mar 12, 2004 at 13:28 UTC

Archive::Zip is great, unless you have to deal with password protected Zip files, in which case, it won't work. And if I remember correctly, the author is not going to implement it either because of encryption schemes (can't remember where I saw that though). But, if you don't need to worry about passwords, then it could be quite useful. I'm looking at possibly implementing it for some of our stuff that does not require passwords to extract the file.

"Ex Libris un Peut de Tout"

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