We have zip compression format in Linux and Windows though it is more popular in Windows. I can imagine 'zipping' as compressing the data . Over a few days I have realised that tar format of compresion is the more widely used format not only for backing up data locally on the hard disk but also for distribution of software. So why is it called tar and why the file called tarball?
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How to statically link libraries in C/C++. Which g++ option is required.
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Sometime today, Pankaj Jangid wrote:
How to statically link libraries in C/C++. Which g++ option is required.
RTFM. The option name is `static', and you can negate it by saying `nostatic', so that way you can selectively link some libs static and others dynamic. Default is `nostatic'.
Manish
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. Tar does not compress data, it only creates one tarfile (or tarball) out of many regular data files. It does one thing, and does it well. You can compress a tarfile by running gzip, compress, bzip, etc. over it.
Manish
--- 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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--- Nikhil Joshi nikhiljoshy@yahoo.com wrote:
We have zip compression format in Linux and Windows though it is more popular in Windows. I can imagine 'zipping' as compressing the data . Over a few days I have realised that tar format of compresion is the more widely used format not only for backing up data locally on the hard disk but also for distribution of software. So why is it called tar and why the file called tarball?
Actually, tar (which stands for Tape ARchive) is a method of concatenating several files into a single archive file. It is not a file compressor. The tar archive file is subsequently compressed using gzip to produce a gzipped archive file with the extension ".tar.gz" or ".tgz".
Rgds,
Krishnan
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Sometime Today, Nikhil Joshi assembled some asciibets to say:
more popular in Windows. I can imagine 'zipping' as compressing the data . Over a few days I have realised that tar format of compresion
tar is not a compression format, it is an archive format.
is the more widely used format not only for backing up data locally on the hard disk but also for distribution of software. So why is it called tar and why the file called tarball?
have you tried doing man tar or info tar? tar stands for tape archive. For history read info tar. Tarball means a ball of tar, generally compressed using gzip (.gz) or bzip2 (.bz2) or compress (.Z).
Philip
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