DJ Lucas wrote: > Andrew Benton wrote: >> Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >>> I thought about that. I really don't like `TAR ball'. tarball in itself >>> is pretty much slang. What do you think of 'tar archive'? >> >> >> Didn't tar originally mean tape archiver? So wouldn't that make a tar >> archive a tape archiver archive? >> >> Andy > > Glad to know I wasn't the only one thinking that. I just bit my tounge > on it and shouldn't have.
But tar is an application in itself. Its not an acronym. There is always 'file in tar format' but that's a little cumbersome. Sounds like leaving it as a tarball is the way to go for now. We might want to consider a change if we ever wanted to publish a paper copy of BLFS. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
