What the heck is a 'tape archive ball' (tarball) -

- what with "tar" being (QUITE) literally:

  "Tape ARchive" (the sequential storage of a directory's
  contents into a single 'sequential' file suitable for
  integral storage, archival and easy transport ...)

in *NIX ...

(I fear we are/we have lost the root meaning of some of
 these commands. The now old and quite historic TI 990
 mincomputers running either DX10 and DNOS OSes had a
 similar -if not the same funcionality- command:

  "BD" for 'backup directory'.

 Essentially the BD command sent an entire directory/
 set of directories and files (as specified in the command
 operand) comprising same to a sequential file - and
 suitable for sending to serial/sequential storage
 'medium' -like tape- for long-term ARCHIVAL storage ...)

RF Jim


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nate Duehr" <nate@NATETECH.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: Eagle Linux install broken?


> Yep, I installed the tarball and it's happy... I was just trying to keep
> this laptop somewhat "clean".
>
> On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 20:41, Herbert Graf wrote:
> > > Anyone run into this on RedHat 8.0?
> > >
> > > [root@nduehr eagle]# rpm -Uvh eagle-4.09r2e-1.i386.rpm
> > > Preparing...
###########################################
> > > [100%]
> > >    1:eagle
###########################################
> > > [100%]
> > > /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.33866: line 1: cd: /eagle: No such file or directory
> > > /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.33866: line 2: ./install: No such file or directory
> > > error: %post(eagle-4.09r2e-1) scriptlet failed, exit status 127
> >
> >         Have you tried running it with the graphical version of RPM
(GnoRPM in
> > default Redhat installs)? Sometimes the graphical version gives more
> > "useful" error messages. If not try getting the tarball, I often forget
> > about going with the RPM and just download the tarball, takes a little
> > longer but is often worth it. TTYL
> >
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