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Date: 2007nov2 Level: Beginner Q. What is a "tar ball" ? A. A "tar ball" is just a tar archive. Tar is the usual Linux/Unix program -- like zip in the Windows world. It would typically have suffix (extension) of: .tar = tar file .tar.gz = tar file compressed with gzip .tgz = tar file compressed with gzip Unarchive like this: tar xfv MYFILE.tar tar xfvz MYFILE.tar.gz tar xfvz MYFILE.tgz
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