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
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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