The concept of PAR just came up again (Perl ARchive, like a JAR) on #perl. JAR files are just fancy zip files, and Java comes with a utility to decompress and read them. Perl doesn't come distributed with any way to decompress anything.
So the first step towards PAR is to have a small, efficient, cross-platform, pure Perl decompression program. So here's the task for FWP: Create a small (doesn't have to be golf), efficient, cross-platform and pure Perl program to decompress the data attached via __DATA__. The compression format is up to you. tgz, tbz, zip, cpio.. whatever. Just as long as it compresses decently and decompresses without a lot of effort. -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One There is nothing wrong. We have taken control of this sig file. We will return it to you as soon as you are groovy.
