how to use rar with mknod ?

Hi all,

I am trying to use rar to compress few big files. I have chosen rar
over gzip or bzip since from my experience rar offers the best
compression ratio. I need to tar a few files together before I go ahead
and do the compression. Here is how I usually do it using gzip:

$ tar cvf - a01.dbf a02.dbf | gzip -v2 > a.tar.gz

but I could not figure out a way to do it with rar since I dont know
how to make rar accept
standard input or produce standard output.

I vaguely remember doing compression on the fly using mknod long time
ago, but could not
remember how to useit now.

Please help,

Regards
Ujang

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