On 6/4/02 12:07 AM, Jeff Lowrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 balls, or a distribution of code and software that has been archived 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
Twice now I've seen the word "tarbull" used. Is this just a serial typo, or are tarbulls different from the tarballs that we all know and love? -- Michael
