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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Lowrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 1:07 AM
> To: Joseph Kruskal; MacPerl Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [MacPerl] What are "tarbulls"?
>
>
> 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 balls, or a distribution of code and software that has been archived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
