On Tue, 16 May 2000, Alexei V. Alexandrov wrote:
> Dear mod_perl users,
>
> I`m new to programming using mod_perl just for learning i wrote some
> simple modules and i want to write a more complex module for solving
> the following task:
>
> There are many .zip files on our server in the web root directory. I
> want to write a kind of module to view the contents of the zip file
> using unzip program. I don`t want to place zip files in a spechial
> folder and so on... What is the best way to do it.
>
Hi,
You could start by taking a look at Apache::Archive, in
$CPAN/authors/id/J/JP/JPETERSON/, which sounds like it does
what you want, but for .tar and .tar.gz files. For an interface
to zip files, check out Archive::Zip, under
$CPAN/authors/id/N/NE/NEDKONZ/.
best regards,
randy kobes
