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tarball
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. [very common; prob. based on the tar baby in the Uncle Remus folk tales]
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An archive, created with the Unix tar (1) utility, containing myriad related
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files. Here, I'll just ftp you a tarball of the whole project. Tarballs have
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been the standard way to ship around source-code distributions since the
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mid-1980s; in retrospect it seems odd that this term did not enter common
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usage until the late 1990s.
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