Perl-Bzip2 -- Bzip2 bindings for Perl5 What is Bzip2 ? ============= Bzip2 is a portable lossless data compression library written in ANSI C. It offers pretty fast compression and fast decompression. Bzip2 has very good results, if you want to compress ASCII Documents. What is Perl ? ============== Perl is an interpreted programming language optimized for scanning text and useful for many system management tasks. To find out more, point your browser to http://www.perl.org/ . What is Perl-Bzip2 ? ================== Perl-Bzip2 provides Bzip2 bindings for Perl5. I.e. you can access the Bzip2 library from your Perl scripts there by compressing ordinary Perl strings. Any caveats ? ============= As I'm no Perl guru I'm not sure if I got everything right - it works fine for me, though. Bug fixes and other feedback are welcome. Author ====== Well, the original author (Gawdi Azem) didn't appear to be maintaining this or responding to email, and it had several bugs especially if you were working with larger files. It also did not compile correctly against the current version of Bzip. Anyway it's all fixed now. I'm using it in production and have been for several months - so if you find a bug feel free to email me. -Brian Horakh (brian@zoovy.com) Copyright ========= Bzip2: Julian Seward Perl-Bzip2: Gawdi Azem Brian Horakh Perl-Bzip2 are distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See the file COPYING. Many Thanks to: =============== Author of LZO: Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer for the great Perl-Module, that I have used to write my one. Author of Bzip2: Julian Seward for writing this great algorithm for the rest of the world. Friend, Perl-Guru: Christian Harms, chrisian@harms.net I am just a beginner in writing perl. I have started this year with writing perl scripts.