IO-Compress
                            Version 2.214
                             24 October 2025
        Copyright (c) 1995-2025 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.
IO-Compress supports reading and writing of the following compressed data formats
  * bzip2
  * RFC 1950
  * RFC 1951
  * RFC 1952 (i.e. gzip)
  * zip
There are a number of companion modules for IO-Compress that extend
the suite of compression formats available.
 * IO-Compress-Zstd
   Adds support for zstd (Zstandard).
 * IO-Compress-Lzma
   Adds support for lzma, xz and lzip.
 * IO-Compress-Lzf
   Adds support for lzf.
 * IO-Compress-Lzop
   Adds support for lzop.
Note that 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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SUPPORT
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General feedback/questions/bug reports should be sent to
https://github.com/pmqs/IO-Compress/issues
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 = "2.214" ;
 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, including
    the setting of configuration environment variables (if applicable).
        [edit config.in or set environment varialbes, if necessary]
        perl Makefile.PL
        make
        make test TEST_VERBOSE=1
Paul Marquess <pmqs@cpan.org>