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>> From Docs
> If no arguments are given, write returns the entire formatted archive
> as a string, which could be useful if you'd like to stuff the archive
> into a socket or a pipe to gzip or something. This functionality may
> be deprecated later, however, as you can also do this using a GLOB
> reference for the first argument.
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> This doesn't appear to be happening any more.
> Returning as a scalar, so I can do what I like with it is a highly
> usefull feature that seems to have dissapeared.
>
good catch, i've changed it to so that things work again, it'll be in
version 1.01.
here's the accompanying documentation:
<docs>
If no arguments are given, C<write> returns the entire formatted
archive as a string, which could be useful if you'd like to stuff the
archive into a socket or a pipe to gzip or something.
</docs>
this means indeed that passing a globref is not supported.
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