This module provides a Perl interface that allows the reading of files or buffers that have been compressed with a variety of compression libraries. The formats supported are: RFC 1950 RFC 1951 (optionally) gzip (RFC 1952) zip zstd (Zstandard) bzip2 lzop lzf lzma lzip xz The module will auto-detect which, if any, of the supported compression formats is being used.