Matt Simonsen wrote: > I need to move several files and compress them - what's the preferred > way to do this? I don't think Zlib::Compress is what I want, it seems > more geared towards dealing with small streams... although I suppose I > could look over each line and write that out. > > The files to compress are all several hundred megs so I want to be sure > to do it right. > > Thanks > Matt
have you try the Compress::LZF module? the author states the LZF algr. is extremely fast! the module is very small as well! i haven't try it myself. moving files(even several hundred megs) locally(ie, not to another mount point or another FS and stuff like that) is very fast because no data is actually copy around, the OS simply make a change to the file's inode dictionary. david -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
