Re: uncompressing unix Z files on Win32

Hi,
Peter Wilson wrote:
"Reinhard Pagitsch" <rprp@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:437c351f$0$41148$14726298@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Peter Wilson wrote:

Can anyone help me? I can't work out how to uncompress .Z files on a win32 machine using perl.

Thanks in advance

Peter

http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ there is a gunzip.exe included which do the work.

regards,
Reinhard



Hi

Many thanks but can i do it within perl? The Compress::Zlib does not support the unix compress format. 

Only if you want to use system() or backticks.

Like
system("gunzip.exe", "file.Z");
or
$ret = `gunzip.exe file.Z`;




Best regards

Peter 




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regards,
Reinhard
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