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by rootbear
2984 days ago
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The name tar comes from Tape ARchive. Lots of padding makes sense when you know that tar was originally used to write files to magnetic tape, which is highly block oriented. The use of tar today as a bundling and distribution format is something of a misapplication, as it lacks features one might want of such a program. |
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