I am dependent on a vendor who think PGP is hard to do. ACK! So, I was trying to use Perl to process the winzip password protected file. I am unfamiliar with the Expect module and looking out on CPAN it I am not sure what you were suggesting. It looks like it spawns a processes. Are you saying I should test the zipped file and if it requires a password spawn off a process to do some winzip command line process? "Puppet String"? Thanks, John
-----Original Message----- From: Chas. Owens [mailto:chas.ow...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 12:18 PM To: Fisher, John Cc: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: uncompress winzip file using perl On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 06:01, Fisher, John <john.j.fis...@salliemae.com> wrote: > That is exactly it. So you are saying that I cannot use this module because > it doesn't take in a password. Is there a module that I could use instead? snip It doesn't look like there are any modules on CPAN that can handle encrypted zip files. My suggestion is to get whoever is encrypting the zip to stop. If the data is sensitive then have them encrypt the files with something like gpg or pgp before zipping them. If you can't convince them to not encrypt the zip file, then you will probably have to use the Expect module to puppet string the unzip command. -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read. This E-Mail has been scanned for viruses.
