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

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