[LA.pm] calling gzip from within perl

[Peter Benjamin]

At 02:13 PM 6/29/2005, Jeremy Leader wrote:
>Note that with '|', it's forking and execing the child, so it's
>running as a different process id from the parent.  The faq entry
>you reference is talking about system() or fork().

My recollection may be hazy.  Or limited to certain OSes that
do not work as well as unix.  Likely it is mixed with using
both STDIN and STDOUT within the same open, which does not work.

Thanks Jeremy for your persistant correctness.