This package contains the following io::compress and io::uncompress modules:

- compress::zlib
- io::compress::base
- io::compress::bzip2
- io::compress::deflate
- io::compress::gzip
- io::compress::rawdeflate
- io::compress::zip
- io::uncompress::base
- io::uncompress::bunzip2
- io::uncompress::gunzip
- io::uncompress::inflate
- io::uncompress::rawinflate
- io::uncompress::unzip
compress::zlib is a perl external module which provides an interface to the info-zip zlib compression library. zlib is a general purpose compression library.

some of the features provided by compress::zlib include:

* in-memory compression and decompression
* read and write gzip (.gz) files directly.
io::compress::bunzip2 and io::uncompress::bunzip2 provide a perl interface that allows transparent reading and writing bzip2 compressed data to files or buffers.

io::compress::base is the base class for all io::compress and io::uncompress modules. it is not intended for direct use in application code. its sole purpose is to be sub-classed by io::compress modules.