The slang term "'tarball "'is sometimes used to refer to a tar file that has been compressed and renamed.
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For the worm to take effect, the user must manually invoke it by opening the tar file and then running the disguised executable within.
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PC / IX omitted the System III FORTRAN compiler, the tar file archiver and did not add BSD tools like vi or the C shell.
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A "'tarbomb "', in hacker slang, is a tar file that contains many files that extract into the working directory.
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Such a tar file can create problems by overwriting files of the same name in the working directory, or mixing one project's files into another.
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Have you considered posting an archive file such as a . ZIP or . tar file, in addition to the individual files, to allow easy downloading?
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The general idea is that tar files are supposed to contain exact copies of the source filesystem when extracted, symlinks, device files, and all that included.
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For some data compressors it is possible to compress the corpus smaller by combining the inputs into an uncompressed archive ( such as a tar file ) before compression because of mutual information between the text files.
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I think this because when I ( unsuccessfully ) tried to install Linux on my computer, the file I downloaded was a . tar file . c 23 : 08, 14 May 2008 ( UTC)
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The tar file should have many recurring byte sequences in it, giving recurring-sequence-based compression algorithms a " happy case " to work with . talk ) 19 : 12, 20 February 2011 ( UTC)
