Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) wrote: > > I need to automate some stuff and decided to use perl. > > I have cygwin perl and activestate perl. > > Below is my attempt. It does not work because I don't have perlIO::gzip > installed. > > When I tried > > /bin/Perl -MCPAN -e 'install PerlIO::gzip' > > The tests fail and it won't install. > > When I try activestate perl's ppm.bat I don't see an any modules when I > search for gzip (except for one called CGI-WebGzip which did not look like > what I wanted). > > Can someone help me reinvent "tar xvfz"?
Run ppm at the command prompt and do rep tcool http://ppm.tcool.org/server/ppmserver.cgi?urn:PPMServer and rep up tcool That will give you a new repository with many useful modules. And it has PerlIO::gzip. HTH, Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
