I recently patched Tar.pm ( a different one ) to work on windows:-
http://search.cpan.org/~cdybed/Tar-0.04/Tar.pm
I chose it because it has no deps. I haven't submitted my patches to the
author as that module is 12 years old. But if you want I can email it to
you.
Lyle
Michael Ellery wrote:
> Serguei Trouchelle wrote:
>
>> Michael Ellery wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Has anyone had success using this module with activeperl on windows XP?
>>> I've tried to run this simple script:
>>>
>>> my $tar = Archive::Tar->new("c:/myfile.tgz");
>>> $tar->extract();
>>>
>> Try this:
>>
>> my $arc = Archive::Tar->new('c:/myfile.tgz', 1);
>> $arc->extract($arc->list_files());
>>
>> It works for me just fine with most of CPAN tar.gz distributions.
>>
>>
>
> hmmm - I tried this and get the same results (so far I've let it run for
> 20 minutes max). I wonder if this archive is simply too big for this
> library to handle (it's about 40 mb, which doesn't seem particularly
> large to me, but who knows...)
>
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