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From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Fixing tar problems (was Re: ZOO and comp.binaries.atari.st)
Summary: Speaking of tar and absolute paths...
Message-ID: <8936@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 13 Jul 89 02:56:17 GMT
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Organization: Chinet - Chicago, Ill.
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In article <3622@hall.cray.com>, rosenkra@hall.cray.com (Bill Rosenkranz) writes:
> 
> nothing is more frustrating than getting a tar tape with absolute path names
> ("hey, guy...maybe i DON'T have 20 MB available in /"). fortunately, there
> are remedies on a unix system but this could be a problem with zoo...
> -bill

There were some tools for fixing messed-up tar files posted to either comp.
sources.unix, comp.sources.misc or one of their fore-runners a while back.  I
had a damaged tar file with precious stuff, so I compiled and used them.
Absolutely no problems.  I didn't think there was any interest, so I didn't
post them, but if (say) 3 people email me I will.
                                  Steve J.        saj@chinet.chi.il.us