Please settle an argument for us: Did you know that TAR stood for Tape ARchive? To clarify, I believe many people know this, someone else believes few people know and I am just old.
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The real question is how many of us actually wrote a tar archive to tape in their career? (/me raises hand)

Oct 13, 2022 · 6:44 PM UTC

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/me raises hand
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Yes on knowing it stands for Tape ARchive. Yes to using them to actually write to tape (this week, in fact!) and also to write to them over 'rsh' on SGI IRIX back in the day :D
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ayup. I've also had to deal with incompatibilities between different versions of tar depending on the flavors of *NIX, but I suppose that probably goes without saying with the crowd that has used it on tapes :/
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/me raises hand
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I did