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. -- Intel CPUs are not defective, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology they just act that way. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu