Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: relative pathname question!
Message-ID: <1988Aug10.165751.20311@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1670003@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <5762@super.upenn.edu> <1968@stpstn.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 88 16:57:51 GMT

>As far as I can tell, there is NO way to extract tar files with
>absolute pathnames anywhere except their original positions.

It has long seemed to me that tar x very badly needs a renaming facility,
to cope with this and other problems.
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