> and rebuild it without any problem (except rpm wanted , for some reason, to
> be built as root)
>
> resulting binary (i586) rar works fine.
>
> Reason why you may want to use rar, instead of zip:
> zip can't cut archive into multiple pcs, say, of 1.5MB
> You may need to send files as an attachment by mail, and as many mail servers
> reject all mails with attachements >2MB, tool like rar is absolutely
> necessary to have!
>
IIRC, It is non-free, unfortunately.
We all know that RAR is good but because of licensing issues we cannot do
that.
Anyway, there are other ways to split files up -- but it does result in a
bit of inconvenience if you don't know how to join them back up with a bit
of shell scripting.
- G.
