This is the README file for Archive::Tar, the Perl module for creation and in-memory manipulation of tar files.

• Installation

Archive::Tar uses the standard perl module install process

perl Makefile.PL make make test (optional but recommended) make install

This module uses no C-coded parts in itself, but it will try to use the IO::Zlib module to read and write gzipped tarfiles. Archive::Tar will still work without IO::Zlib, it will just complain when you try to use a compressed archive or write one, since it obviously can’t.