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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: tar frustration (was Re: relative pathname question!)
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Date: 14 Aug 88 19:17:42 GMT
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The reason you can't just do "tar cv `cat filenames`" is that tar will always
search down through directories.  Someone pointed out that Gilmore's PD tar
has a -T option that will allow you to avoid this while reading a file.  If
this is so, I suggest people get a copy.  My cpio-user-interfaced tar is not
really distribution quality but it does work.

-Ron