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Date:      Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:00:57 +0200
From:      bkhl@elektrubadur.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?Bj=F6rn_Lindstr=F6m?=)
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tar vs rar
Message-ID:  <87u0sqkgl2.fsf@lucien.dreaming>
References:  <20041019112805.GB7013@nagual.st>

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dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> writes:

> I like rar for freebsd for the possibility to make predefined archive
> sizes. If I tar a directory and want to burn it (later) to a cdr is it
> possible with (free/OSS) tar to predefine such chunks? Or is there some
> other utility to do this for me?

You can use split (man split) to split any kind of file, including tar
files, up in pieces.



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