in reply to Generic repository of files

How about IO::All?

It seems to cover most things:

IO::All IO::All of it to Graham and Damian! 0.33 IO::All::DBM DBM Support for IO::All IO::All::Dir Directory Support for IO::All IO::All::File File Support for IO::All IO::All::Filesys File System Methods Mixin for IO::All IO::All::Link Symbolic Link Support for IO::All IO::All::MLDBM MLDBM Support for IO::All IO::All::Pipe Pipe Support for IO::All IO::All::STDIO STDIO Support for IO::All IO::All::Socket Socket Support for IO::All IO::All::String String IO Support for IO::All IO::All::Temp Temporary File Support for IO::All

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