Simple file archiver and compressor.
archronis pack file1 [file2] [file3] ... output_file
archronis unpack archive_file
Rat is an archiving program that stores multiple files compressed in a single compressed file. It uses classic LZW algoritm published by Terry Welch in 1984, which encodes sequences of 8-bit data as fixed-length 12-bit codes
- only regular files are supported: no symlinks, fifos and other special files
- file access mode and last modification time are preserved
- CRC-32 checksum of each compressed block is calculated
- text files, source code and binaries can be compressed with excellent ratio
- already compressed data is usually compressed with poor ratio or even inflates