[imp] Tarball with all sources in it
Wes Parker
wesp@drm207b.utsi.edu
Tue, 28 Aug 2001 20:52:34 -0500
> Travis Zadikem wrote:
> > Why doesn't someone create a tarball with all
> > the sources in it. That way a person can just
> > download the tarball, unzip it =
> =
> =
> One does not unzip a tarball,
> one untars it.
> =
Not to pick nits (he said, as he nitpicked), but many people make tar tarballs
with tar -czf (for gzip) or tar -cjf (bzip2), in which case tarballs have to
be unzipped before they are untarred.