Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!sahayman From: sahayman@watmath.waterloo.edu (Steve Hayman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: relative pathname question! Message-ID: <20437@watmath.waterloo.edu> Date: 19 Aug 88 02:16:28 GMT References: <1670003@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <5762@super.upenn.edu> <5103@rpp386.UUCP> <591@sbsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: sahayman@watmath.waterloo.edu (Steve Hayman) Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, U. of Waterloo Lines: 30 Sorry to leap into this discussion so late. Anyway, in article <591@sbsvax.UUCP> greim@sbsvax.UUCP suggests using a little filter program to remove leading /'s from tar pathnames: (i.e. filter