Re: rar package

[Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

>>>>> " " == Steve Hiller <sxh7322@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> writes:

     > Hello, I could be totally missing something but is there a rar
     > package around for alpha? I can find unrar but no rar. I find
     > it hard to believe that a widely used archiver wouldn't have
     > been ported but stranger things have happened. I searched
     > around pretty good for even an .rpm or source but to no
     > avail. If anyone know anything it would be appreciated.

Since when is rar widely used? Havent seen it in years.

Also note that rar is optimised to compress i386 binariey AFAIK, so on
alpha it pretty much looses.

An compressor optimised for alpha binaries would be nice though.

MfG
        Goswin