I need help with winrar commands

[Astralogic]

Hello, could someone tell me what command line arguments I use with winrar to enable maximum rar compression please?

I took a look at the help in winrar but there are too many commands and switches and I don't really know what I'm looking for (although I found information about solid mode and that sounds like it's good for compression).

Any help appreciated,
Thanks.

[Astralogic]

OK I did my researchy and came up with this: winrar a -rr -afrar -m5

I couldn't find a switch to create a solid archive though so how do I do that?

Thanks

EDIT: I'm getting it wrong because that command doesn't work. I'm trying to use it with 3ds max, it can save files as archives if provided with the command lines parameters for winrar.

[Astralogic]

Anyone?

[Steve R Jones]

Are you adding the part where you have to mention what you want to compress - the name of the compressed file and where you want it to be stored?

Is there a reason why you're doing command line compression?
Using something like 7zip from within Windows is a lot easier.

[Astralogic]

Are you adding the part where you have to mention what you want to compress - the name of the compressed file and where you want it to be stored?

Is there a reason why you're doing command line compression?
Using something like 7zip from within Windows is a lot easier.

Well, I'm using a 3D modeling program called 3ds max, under it's 'save as' option it will let me save my entire project as an archive (as opposed to the many files that a project is comprised of). It comes with it's own zip utility that it uses by default but rar would give me better compression so I would rather use it instead.

The program (3ds max, in it's settings) allows me to supply the filename and command line arguments of my own custom archiving app. 3ds max supplies the contents of the archive itself to the command as well as the archive name and location so I don't need to manually provide those. All I need to supply is "rar.exe" and it's arguments.

I did realize using "winrar" is wrong and that it should be "rar.exe".

But my arguments must be wrong because the compression never succeeds.