on 5-15-2008 1:31 PM Simon Jolle sjolle spake the following:
You just can't beat one thing about tar and gzip on unix like systems -- they all come with it "from the factory".On 05/15/2008 05:27 AM, Nick Fenwick wrote:For what it's worth, I usually use rar for this task, because I can figure out the command line in about 10 seconds by running 'rar' with no arguments and check the help output, and they confuse my Windows-y friends less if I need to pass them around. Install rar from rpmforge.I admit RAR is a file archiver that archives with very high compression ratios and is very popular in windows world. But is proprietary software (not Open Source). I recommend you using 7zip[0] currently leader in high compression on unix-like systems.To split a directory of files into roughly 700Mb bits: rar a -v700000k rarname_to_create.rar dir_of_files7za a -v700m rarname_to_create.rar dir_of_files Pre-packaged RPM is available at RPMforge[1]
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