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+
+ IO-Compress-Base
+
+ Version 2.012
+
+ 15th July 2008
+
+ Copyright (c) 2005-2008 Paul Marquess. All rights reserved.
+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it
+ and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+
+This module is the base class for all IO::Compress and IO::Uncompress
+modules.
+
+PREREQUISITES
+-------------
+
+Before you can build IO-Compress-Base you need to have the following
+installed on your system:
+
+ * Perl 5.004 or better.
+
+BUILDING THE MODULE
+-------------------
+
+Assuming you have met all the prerequisites, the module can now be built
+using this sequence of commands:
+
+ perl Makefile.PL
+ make
+ make test
+
+INSTALLATION
+------------
+
+To install IO-Compress-Base, run the command below:
+
+ make install
+
+TROUBLESHOOTING
+---------------
+
+FEEDBACK
+--------
+
+How to report a problem with IO-Compress-Base.
+
+To help me help you, I need all of the following information:
+
+ 1. The Versions of everything relevant.
+ This includes:
+
+ a. The *complete* output from running this
+
+ perl -V
+
+ Do not edit the output in any way.
+ Note, I want you to run "perl -V" and NOT "perl -v".
+
+ If your perl does not understand the "-V" option it is too
+ old. This module needs Perl version 5.004 or better.
+
+ b. The version of IO-Compress-Base you have.
+ If you have successfully installed IO-Compress-Base, this one-liner
+ will tell you:
+
+ perl -MIO::Compress::Base -e 'print qq[ver $IO::Compress::Base::VERSION\n]'
+
+ If you are running windows use this
+
+ perl -MIO::Compress::Base -e "print qq[ver $IO::Compress::Base::VERSION\n]"
+
+ If you haven't installed IO-Compress-Base then search IO::Compress::Base.pm
+ for a line like this:
+
+ $VERSION = "2.012" ;
+
+ 2. If you are having problems building IO-Compress-Base, send me a
+ complete log of what happened. Start by unpacking the IO-Compress-Base
+ module into a fresh directory and keep a log of all the steps
+
+ [edit config.in, if necessary]
+ perl Makefile.PL
+ make
+ make test TEST_VERBOSE=1
+
+Paul Marquess <pmqs@cpan.org>