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tarball: n. [very common; prob. based on the “tar baby” in the
Uncle Remus folk tales] An archive, created with the Unix tar(1) utility,
containing myriad related files. “Here, I'll just ftp you a tarball
of the whole project.” Tarballs have been the standard way to ship
around source-code distributions since the mid-1980s; in retrospect it
seems odd that this term did not enter common usage until the late
1990s.
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