Distributing Rev Stacks (was The age of user-translatable applications...

[Tony]

We usually create "tarballs" (g-zipped tars) when exchanging files with 
other *nix users.

We are, in general, capable of accomplishing whatever we want to on our 
systems.

This includes decompression of files compressed in other formats.

(You will be assimilated.)


Rob Cozens wrote:
> 
> I have no idea how to bundle files for Unix, which is one reason the ftp 
> site lists individual files in addition to bundles...the other reason is 
> so people can update individual Library components without having to 
> download the whole enchilada.
>