Compress a folder (Perl)

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# From the book "Windows XP Cookbook"
# ISBN: 0596007256

# ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------

use Win32::OLE;

$strComputer = '.';
$strFolder = '<FolderPath>';
# e.g. d:\scripts
# ------ END CONFIGURATION ---------
$objWMI = Win32::OLE->GetObject('winmgmts:\\\\' . $strComputer . '\\root\\cimv2');
$objFolder = $objWMI->Get('Win32_Directory=\'' . $strFolder . '\'');
$intRC = $objFolder->Compress;
# To uncompress change this to objFolder.Uncompress
if ($intRC != 0) {
    print 'There was an error compressing the folder: ' . $intRC, "\n";
}
else {
    print "Folder compression successful\n";
}

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