#!/usr/bin/perl -w ########################################################################### # # txtgz-to-gdbm -- # A component of the Greenstone digital library software # from the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the # University of Waikato, New Zealand. # # Copyright (C) 1999 New Zealand Digital Library Project # # This program 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 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program 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 this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. # ########################################################################### # This script invokes gzip to unzip the textual database. It is necessary, # since the C++ code that directly invokes it fails on Windows. The added # benefit of doing this via the perl script here is that if an external # webserver was used (such as Apache), it will probably still work. use strict; no strict 'refs'; # allow filehandles to be variables and vice versa no strict 'subs'; # allow barewords (eg STDERR) as function arguments my $txtgz_filename = $ARGV[0]; my $gdbm_filename = $ARGV[1]; if (scalar(@ARGV)!=2) { my ($prog_name) = ($0 =~ m/^.*\/(.*?)$/); print STDERR "Usage: $prog_name txtgz_filename gdbm_filename\n"; exit -1; } my $cmd = "gzip --decompress --to-stdout \"$txtgz_filename\" | txt2db \"$gdbm_filename\""; my $ret_status = system($cmd); #print STDERR "***## system error message $!\n"; #print STDERR "***## ret status = $ret_status\n"; #return $ret_status;