Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!yale!bunker!stpstn!aad From: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: relative pathname question! Message-ID: <1968@stpstn.UUCP> Date: 6 Aug 88 16:34:26 GMT References: <1670003@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <5762@super.upenn.edu> Reply-To: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) Organization: The Stepstone Corporation, Sandy Hook, CT Lines: 33 In article <5762@super.upenn.edu> spolsky@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Joel Spolsky) writes: >In article <1670003@hpcilzb.HP.COM> tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson) writes: >As far as I can tell, there is NO way to extract tar files with >absolute pathnames anywhere except their original positions. I tried for a year or two to do that, then gave up. When I make a tar tape I always explicitly give it a ./foo pathname. A month or so ago one of my users (a boss-type, actually) came to me with a tape written by a company we do work with, and asked me to read it. Lo and behold! /usr2/sally/... on the tape! I felt like assaulting the representative of that company who was here with my df32 platter, but I cooled off. I just made a /usr2 that was a symbolic link to where I wanted it to go and everything was okay. Things could have been worse because there used to be a user "sally". Reminds me of my days back at CMU when a user would come up with a tape they wanted to read. me: What density is the tape? user: Huh? me: What format is the tape? user: Huh? me: Allright, what kind of computer is the tape from? user: Huh? (but I digress..) -- @disclaimer(Any concepts or opinions above are entirely mine, not those of my employer, my GIGI, or my 11/34) beak is beak is not Anthony A. Datri,SysAdmin,StepstoneCorporation,stpstn!aad