At 12:38 AM -0400 6/4/02, Joseph Kruskal wrote: >Several recent messages in this mailing list have referred to "tarbulls". I >looked in CPAN and couldn't find this word. I googled and did not find >anything useful. What does it mean?
I believe the word you want is 'tarballs'. What that means is 'tar' balls, or a distribution of code and software that has been archived into a single file by a program called 'tar' or a program that creates files in tar format. Tarballs are usually also compressed using gzip. A typical tarball has a file name that ends with '.tar.gz'. Like Stuffit, but unixy and older. -Jeff Lowrey
