[ILUG-BOM] tarballs-why r they so called?

[S. Krishnan]

--- Manish Jethani <cruisecoder at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Sometime today, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
> 
> > So why is it called tar and why the file called
> tarball?
> 
> Tar stands for "tape archive", from the days when
> people used to
> back up their data onto tapes. 

People still use tapes for backup.

Krishnan


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