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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: relative pathname question!
Message-ID: <8330@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 11 Aug 88 00:01:00 GMT
References: <1670003@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <5762@super.upenn.edu> <453@infohh.rmi.de>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <453@infohh.rmi.de> rlj-nbg@infohh.rmi.de (R.L. Jakschewitz) writes:
-chroot newroot command
-is one way to extract tar-chives that have been written with
-absolute pathnames relative to 'newroot'.

Only if you set up things like mkdir in the new /bin first!