NAME

Meta::Tool::Gzip - call gzip for you.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

        MANIFEST: Gzip.pm
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.12

SYNOPSIS

        package foo;
        use Meta::Tool::Gzip qw();
        my($object)=Meta::Tool::Gzip->new();
        my($result)=$object->method();

DESCRIPTION

This class hides the complexity of calling gzip from you. Currently the implementation calls the command line gzip to do the work but more advanced implementations will call a module to do it.

FUNCTIONS

        c2gzxx($)
        TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

c2gzxx($)

This method gets a source file and compresses it into the target. The method returns a success code. We use the system_shell_nodie function here with the shell as a mediator because gzip doesnt have a -o flag.

TEST($)

Test suite for this module.

SUPER CLASSES

None.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
        WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV add zipping subsystem
        0.01 MV perl packaging
        0.02 MV BuildInfo object change
        0.03 MV md5 project
        0.04 MV database
        0.05 MV perl module versions in files
        0.06 MV movies and small fixes
        0.07 MV thumbnail user interface
        0.08 MV more thumbnail issues
        0.09 MV website construction
        0.10 MV web site automation
        0.11 MV SEE ALSO section fix
        0.12 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

Meta::Utils::System(3), strict(3)

TODO

-stop using the shell in the gzip execution (waste of resources).

-start using a real compression module (much cheaper in resources).

cpanm Meta::Init

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Meta::Init