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From: pml@basin.cacs.usl.edu (Patrick M. Landry)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: extracting files from a tar file
Keywords: tar
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Date: 24 Aug 90 14:40:45 GMT
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In article <6155@bgsuvax.UUCP> fyfe@bgsuvax.UUCP (Bob Fyfe) writes:
>I have a faculty member who has brought a tape with him from a different site.
>It is a tar tape and the files were stored using absolute pathnames...

>I was wondering if there are any PD programs that exist or whether someone
>has written a script to get around this problem.

What I have done in the past with tapes such as these is to create a link
from where the tar wants to put files to the place I really want them. This
obviously only works if there is some common directory on the tape under
which all the files reside. Just a thought.
--
patrick
pml@cacs.usl.edu