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tarball
(encz) | tarball,archiv vytvořený tarem n: [it.] Unix(-like) tar Václav
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tarball
(foldoc) | tar
tape archive
tarball
("Tape ARchive", following ar) Unix's
general purpose archive utility and the file format it uses.
Tar was originally intended for use with magnetic tape but,
though it has several command line options related to tape,
it is now used more often for packaging files together on
other media, e.g. for distribution via the Internet.
The resulting archive, a "tar file" (humourously, "tarball")
is often compressed, using gzip or some other form of
compression (see tar and feather).
There is a GNU version of tar called gnutar with several
improvements over the standard versions.
Filename extension: .tar
MIME type: unregistered, but commonly application/x-tar
Unix manual page: tar(1).
Compare shar, zip.
(1998-05-02)
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tarball
(jargon) | tarball
n.
[very common; prob. based on the “tar baby” in the Uncle Remus folk tales]
An archive, created with the Unix tar(1) utility, containing myriad related
files. “Here, I'll just ftp you a tarball of the whole project.” Tarballs
have been the standard way to ship around source-code distributions since
the mid-1980s; in retrospect it seems odd that this term did not enter
common usage until the late 1990s.
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