Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn 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. Lines: 6 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!