[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.