The RAR archiver has been updated (11/24/2000) to version 2.8b1. It is command-line driven, has tight general and multimedia compression, recovery record option management of non-RAR archives, RCVT aRchive ConVersion Tool, FREE unRAR utility, ANSI color comments, volume labels and more.
Also available (6/20/2000) is the non-beta version 2.71.
http://www.rarsoft.com/
Source: OS/2 Warp News and Rumors