tar vs rar

[Björn Lindström]

dick hoogendijk <dick at 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.