22 Jul
2001
22 Jul
'01
12:42 p.m.
--- Manish Jethani cruisecoder@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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