www.rarsoft.com
Cross platform archiver which supports zip/lha/arc/gz/...
and has it's own rar format. I've used it for 2 years
with no probs (note for windoze it's better than winzip).
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fergal Daly [mailto:fergal at esatclear.ie]
> Sent: 20 June 2000 17:59
> To: ilug at linux.ie>> Can anyone recommend and alternative to tar? Because as far
> as I can tell
> with tar, you have to read the whole tar file to get to the
> last file. Is
> there a tarrer that builds some sort of table of contents,
> puts that at the
> start of the file and lets you jump in and extract files at random,
> preferably with compression too.
>> I'd imagine zip might do this, but it's not really designed to handle
> permissions etc.
>> Fergal
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