"David Heayn" <david@cloudgraphics.com> wrote:
> 
> At 12:36 PM +0800 6/29/05, Benjamin J. Tilly  wrote:
> > Why do you need to decompress them beforehand?
> >
> >   open(LOG, "gunzip $file |") or die "Cannot gunzip '$file': $!";
> >
> > Or you can avoid the implicit system command by using
> > Compress::Zlib.
> 
> I tried the code above. It decompressed the files (and erased the
> original) but perl didn't properly display them. In fact, it
> displayed nothing but the html title and header.
[...]

As everyone pointed out, I had the system command wrong.  Sorry.

That's what I deserve for replying quickly and not testing my
command...

Ben