in reply to How to copy files to a new directory, and invoke gzip from Perl on Win32?

Gzip only zips bytestreams. That means that you normally only gzip a single file. On unix, a common method to package directories is to create a tar archive and gzip that.

Assuming you have tar and gzip installed, the process is the same for unix and windows: 

system("tar c directoryname|gzip >archive.tar.gz") && die "Error archi
+ving directory";

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As for copying files, take a look at the standard File::Copy module.

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