8 Copyright (c) 1995-2010 Paul Marquess. All rights reserved.
9 This program is free software; you can redistribute it
10 and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
15 This distribution provides a Perl interface to allow reading and writing of
16 compressed data created with the zlib and bzip2 libraries.
18 IO-Compress supports reading and writing of bzip2, RFC 1950, RFC
19 1951, RFC 1952 (i.e. gzip) and zip files/buffers.
21 The following modules used to be distributed separately, but are now
22 included with the IO-Compress distribution.
32 Before you can build IO-Compress you need to have the following
33 installed on your system:
35 * Perl 5.004 or better.
37 * Compress::Raw::Bzip2
42 Assuming you have met all the prerequisites, the module can now be built
43 using this sequence of commands:
52 To install IO-Compress, run the command below:
62 How to report a problem with IO-Compress.
64 To help me help you, I need all of the following information:
66 1. The Versions of everything relevant.
69 a. The *complete* output from running this
73 Do not edit the output in any way.
74 Note, I want you to run "perl -V" and NOT "perl -v".
76 If your perl does not understand the "-V" option it is too
77 old. This module needs Perl version 5.004 or better.
79 b. The version of IO-Compress you have.
80 If you have successfully installed IO-Compress, this one-liner
83 perl -MIO::Compress::Gzip -e 'print qq[ver $IO::Compress::Gzip::VERSION\n]'
85 If you are running windows use this
87 perl -MIO::Compress::Gzip -e "print qq[ver $IO::Compress::Gzip::VERSION\n]"
89 If you haven't installed IO-Compress then search IO::Compress::Gzip.pm
94 2. If you are having problems building IO-Compress, send me a
95 complete log of what happened. Start by unpacking the IO-Compress
96 module into a fresh directory and keep a log of all the steps
98 [edit config.in, if necessary]
101 make test TEST_VERBOSE=1
103 Paul Marquess <pmqs@cpan.org>