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I understood the name immediately, but always considered it an awful name for most "normal" users. But, maybe UNIX culture will win in the end and "tar" will be
by SwellJoe 13y ago
I understood the name immediately, but always considered it an awful name for most "normal" users. But, maybe UNIX culture will win in the end and "tar" will become a word everyone knows.
- parennoob 13y agoFor what it's worth, I do know what 'tar' means -- I mostly use Linux (GNU/Linux if you're being pedantic), so the snap part was what I was asking about.
- cperciva 13y agoTarsnap users almost always already know what tar is. The fact that tarsnap has a tar command line -- i.e., one they already know -- is a big deal for a lot of tarsnap users.