Miscellaneous: Rar
(last edit: 2000-11-22)
                   Rar works almost the same and is compatible with rar for Dos/Win.

Here's an example:

user@host:/tmp#rar a -r -ep1 -m0 -v1440 myprogram /mnt/cdrom/myprogram/* 

RAR 2.02     Copyright (c) 1993-97 Eugene Roshal     9 August 1997
Shareware version         Type RAR -? for help

Evaluation copy. Please register.

Creating archive myprogram.rar

Adding    /mnt/cdrom/myprogram/bla.zip                 Ok 
Adding    /mnt/cdrom/myprogram/Installer.exe             
Create next volume ?  Yes/No/All a


Creating archive myprogram.r00

...       mnt/cdrom/myprogram/Installer.exe              

Creating archive myprogram.r01

Now you have allot of files beginning with 'myprogram.rar', 'myprogram.r??'. You can
unpack these files on FreeBSD, Windows/Dos, Linux etc.

user@host:/tmp#rar x myprogram.rar 

RAR 2.02     Copyright (c) 1993-97 Eugene Roshal     9 August 1997
Shareware version         Type RAR -? for help


Extracting from myprogram.rar

Creating    mnt                                                      Ok
Creating    mnt/cdrom                                                Ok
Creating    mnt/cdrom/myprogram                                      Ok
Extracting  mnt/cdrom/myprogram/bla.zip                              Ok
Extracting  mnt/cdrom/myprogram/Installer.exe               

Extracting from myprogram.r00

...         mnt/cdrom/myprogram/Installer.exe               

Extracting from mypgrogram.r01

....

And now you have the program back, woepie!!!


Man rar

 a       Add files to archive.

            Example:

            rar a myarch

            Create or update existent archive myarch, adding all files
            in the current directory:

 t       Test archive files. This command performs a dummy file
            extraction, writing nothing to the output stream, in order to
            validate the specified file(s).

            Examples:

            Test archives in current directory:

            rar t *

            or for Unix:

            rar t '*'

            User may test archives in all sub-directories, starting
            with the current path:

            rar t -r *

            or for Unix:

            rar t -r '*'


    -ep1    Exclude base dir from names. Do not store the path entered in
            the command line.

            Example:

            all files and directories from the directory tmp will be added
            to the archive 'pasta', but the path will not include 'tmp\'

            rar a -ep1 -r pasta 'tmp\*'

            This is equivalent to the commands:

            cd tmp
            rar a -ep1 -r pasta
            cd ..


    -m   Set compression method:

       -m0   store     do not compress file when adding to archive
       -m1   fastest   use fastest method (less compressive)
       -m2   fast      use fast compression method
       -m3   normal    use normal (default) compression method
       -m4   good      use good compression method (more
                       compressive, but slower)
       -m5   best      use best compression method (slightly more
                       compressive, but slowest)

            By default RAR uses -m3 method (Normal compression).


   -r      Recurse subdirectories. May be used with commands:
            a, u, f, m, x, e, t, p, v, l, c, cf and s.

            When used with the commands 'a', 'u', 'f', 'm' will process
            files in all sub-directories as well as the current working
            directory.

            When used with the commands x, e, t, p, v, l, c, cf or s will
            process all archives in sub-directories as well as the current
            working directory.


    -v[k|b|f]  Create volumes with size=*1000 [*1024 | *1].
            By default this switch uses  as thousands (1000) of bytes
            (not 1024 x bytes). You may also enter the size in kilobytes
            using the symbol 'k', in bytes using the symbol 'b' or
            select one from several predefined values using the symbol 'f'
            following the numerical value. Predefined values can be
            360, 720, 1200, 1440 or 2880 and replaced with corresponding
            floppy disk size.

            If the size is omitted, autodetection will be used.

            If volumes are created on the same drive as the temporary files
            (current drive by default, but may be changed with the switch
            '-w'), the autodetected size becomes meaningless. In this case
            the volume size must be explicitly defined.


            Example:

            create archive in volumes of fixed size:

            rar a -s -v1440 floparch.rar *.*

            will create solid volumes of size 1440000 bytes.