Serguei Trouchelle wrote:
> 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.
>
okay - thanks for the advice. My archive actually contains a single
large file (exe image), so I might still have problems with
extract_file. My current fall-back plan is to use 7-zip to extract in a
shell command, which seems to work fine.
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