Copyright 2010 Kevin Ryde This file is part of Filter-gunzip. Filter-gunzip is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version. Filter-gunzip is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Filter-gunzip. If not, see . This spot of code gunzips Perl source code with a layer pushed on the parser input. It's slightly at proof of concept stage, but is a handy way to run foo.pl.gz files directly, or even to make a self-uncompressing executable if desired. The Filter::gunzip home page is http://user42.tuxfamily.org/filter-gunzip/index.html