Re: Archiving with POE

2007-11-03 Thread Jeremy Palmer
Hi David, OK thanks. However POE::Component::Generic is not an option for me as I'm using win32, and the Activestate Perl fork emulation has lots of bugs. I just found this post: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.poe/2006/11/msg3601.html There does not seem to be any follow-up though :( Ch

Re: Archiving with POE

2007-11-03 Thread David Davis
That filter is for compressing a stream. You should look at using an archive module in combination with POE::Component::Generic HTH Cheers -- David Davis • Software Engineer • [ http://xant.us/ ] On Nov 3, 2007, at 20:09, "Jeremy Palmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if t

Archiving with POE

2007-11-03 Thread Jeremy Palmer
Hi, Does anyone know if there is an easy way to compress a directory of files (either with TAR/GZIP or ZIP) using POE? I see there is a filter called 'POE::Filter::Zlib', but I'm not sure how to use it. In some cases the directory archive might be 50 mb, so it's very important that this task d