IO-Compress

                        Version 2.072

                           12th February 2017

      Copyright (c) 1995-2017 Paul Marquess. All rights reserved.
         This program is free software; you can redistribute it
          and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

DESCRIPTION
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This distribution provides a Perl interface to allow reading and writing of
compressed data created with the zlib and bzip2 libraries.

IO-Compress supports reading and writing of bzip2, RFC 1950, RFC
1951, RFC 1952 (i.e. gzip) and zip files/buffers.

The following modules used to be distributed separately, but are now
included with the IO-Compress distribution.

   Compress-Zlib
   IO-Compress-Zlib
   IO-Compress-Bzip2
   IO-Compress-Base

PREREQUISITES
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Before you can build IO-Compress you need to have the following
installed on your system:

   * Perl 5.006 or better.
   * Compress::Raw::Zlib
   * Compress::Raw::Bzip2

BUILDING THE MODULE
-------------------

Assuming you have met all the prerequisites, the module can now be built
using this sequence of commands:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test

INSTALLATION
------------

To install IO-Compress, run the command below:

   make install

TROUBLESHOOTING
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FEEDBACK
--------

How to report a problem with IO-Compress.

To help me help you, I need all of the following information:

1. The Versions of everything relevant.
   This includes:

    a. The *complete* output from running this

           perl -V

       Do not edit the output in any way.
       Note, I want you to run "perl -V" and NOT "perl -v".

       If your perl does not understand the "-V" option it is too
       old. This module needs Perl version 5.004 or better.

    b. The version of IO-Compress you have.
       If you have successfully installed IO-Compress, this one-liner
       will tell you:

          perl -MIO::Compress::Gzip -e 'print qq[ver $IO::Compress::Gzip::VERSION\n]'

       If you are  running windows use this

          perl -MIO::Compress::Gzip -e "print qq[ver $IO::Compress::Gzip::VERSION\n]"

       If you haven't installed IO-Compress then search IO::Compress::Gzip.pm
       for a line like this:

         $VERSION = "2.072" ;

2. If you are having problems building IO-Compress, send me a
   complete log of what happened. Start by unpacking the IO-Compress
   module into a fresh directory and keep a log of all the steps

       [edit config.in, if necessary]
       perl Makefile.PL
       make
       make test TEST_VERBOSE=1

Paul Marquess <[email protected]>