on 5-15-2008 1:31 PM Simon Jolle sjolle spake the following: > 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_files > > 7za a -v700m rarname_to_create.rar dir_of_files > > Pre-packaged RPM is available at RPMforge[1] > You just can't beat one thing about tar and gzip on unix like systems -- they all come with it "from the factory". -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080515/9af017b9/attachment-0005.sig>