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Subject: Re: best archiver?
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> I would look into archivers/bunzip and archivers/p7zip.  I recall
> reading that the 7z format produces better compression rates than RAR

7zip is comparable to grzip (sometimes sligtly better - difference in 
order of 1%), while much slower