Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!dogie!uwmcsd1!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!att!ihnp4!chinet!randy From: randy@chinet.UUCP (Randy Suess) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: How can I read a cpio archive with absolute pathnames? Message-ID: <5506@chinet.UUCP> Date: 11 May 88 15:59:59 GMT References: <407@vsi.UUCP> <4019@cup.portal.com> <434@vsi.UUCP> <4400@b-tech.UUCP> <5232@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: randy@chinet.UUCP (Randy Suess) Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix Lines: 24 In article <5232@cup.portal.com> itkin@cup.portal.com writes: ]> ]>There is a comp.sources program called fixcpio that fixes damaged cpio ]>archives (it's great for skipping over that one bad spot in a set of ]>floppy backups). It could be easily modified to remove a leading / ]>from files names. ]>Jon Zeeff Branch Technology, ] ]How about keeping it simple? Use 'chroot' to specify a new root directory ]relative to something you like and then move/rename the file once it's there. Oh? And where is the person that just chroot'd going to find cpio, /dev/whatever, etc? Turns out that you need a whole bunch of programs moved to the subdirectory you want to be in. Chroot is not a nice command. Seems Jon's idea is simpler. -randy -- that's the biz, sweetheart..... Randy Suess ..!att!chinet!randy