Re^3: using Archive::Tar

[ansh batra]

in reply to Re^2: using Archive::Tar
in thread using Archive::Tar

what shall i do when i want to compress a FILE to .gz only? please reply asap!!!

[Tux]

For compressing a single file, why use perl? You could use gzip on the command line.

If it needs to be in perl, look at Compress::Zlib. The manual has lots of info about gzip support.

    $dest = Compress::Zlib::memGzip   ($buffer);
    $dest = Compress::Zlib::memGunzip ($buffer);