Well, for one: RAR compresses _way_ better then ZIP does. I dont know if it is better at compressing text-only data or other types of data, here is what I get for an XSL file (Microsoft Excel): Original size: 2,433,024 bytes ZIP size: 303,104 bytes RAR size: 266,240 bytes I use WinRAR wit the highest compression factor. The results seem more noticble on larger files (>100 MB Apache log files for example) I havent used the command line RAR for along time, I usually just tar with gzip/bzip2, so I dont know anything abou the cli version of it. > By the way, what is the advantage of RAR? It seems to be a program that > makes things more complicated rather than less (though I suppose it gets > somewhat better compression in some cases -- never seemed to be as good > as gzip or bzip2 to me). -- Andrei Bazhgin www.nan2d.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list