Nice module; still I would love it if the files wouldn't be kept in core memory, but read in as they were requested through get_content(). We work with tarfiles of several hundreds of MB's, and you don't want that in memory. Perhaps the Archive::Tar::File object could be made 'lazy', and not read in the content into memory until specifically asked for it? The way it works now, I can't use itm only due to this memory usage. With the lazy version, I'd be one happy hippo.