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On 1 Apr 2002, at 1:31, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> The concept of PAR just came up again (Perl ARchive, like a JAR) on
> #perl. ...
> 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.
As another small 'twist', if in addition to everything else you did
something akin yEncoding the __DATA__, then you'd have an email-
able/usenet-postable archive format.
/Bernie\
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