A Python take on "Programming Web Graphics with Perl and..."
Fred L. Drake
fdrake at cnri.reston.va.us
Mon May 10 11:21:04 EDT 1999
I wrote:
>to get a source tarball.
Travis C. Porco asked:
> What is a tarball?
Sorry, Travis, a bit of oddball slang. A "tarball" is a .tar archive,
possibly compressed. In the case of Grail, it's really a
gzip-compressed tar archive with a .tgz extension.
(And to think, I've gotten in trouble for "tarball" before; you'd
think I'd learn!)
-Fred
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Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org>
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