On 9/11/06, Derek B. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I need to compress a bunch of files, so instead of making a system call to gzip I figured to try out Archive::Zip. After running this code it creates a new file but is larger in size.
That module automatically uses Compress::Zlib to compress the data. Were any of the files compressed before you started? Compression algorithms can't shrink every file, and files that have compact formats can't be shrunk. If you try collecting the files with another archiving tool, you should see roughly the same results, if they're already compact: The archive will be roughly the same size as the uncompressed data, or a little larger. Cheers! --Tom Phoenix Stonehenge Perl Training -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
