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
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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
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To install IO-Compress, run the command below:

    make install

TROUBLESHOOTING
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SUPPORT
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