Michael Ellery wrote:
>> 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...)
Actually, yes. It is PP and it stores file contents in memory.
Even 1MB can too big for Archive-Tar's extract if there's a lot of files in it.
You may want to try extract_file method, it should be faster, or even tar.exe
from MinGW or UnxUtils.
--
Serguei Trouchelle
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