Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!ll-xn!adelie!mirror!frog!john
From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: PAX problems with linked files
Keywords: pax tar cpio archive tape
Message-ID: <1122@frog.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 89 00:35:00 GMT
References: <1989Mar17.174014.15444@tmsoft.uucp>
Organization: Misanthropes-R-Us
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In article <1989Mar17.174014.15444@tmsoft.uucp>, woods@tmsoft.uucp (Greg Woods) writes:
> 
> 
> I would also like to see extraction always create under the current
> directory, regardless of whether there is a leading slash on the
> filename stored in the archive.  It thought this is what the
> documentation ment by "relative to the current directory".  I will
> probably make this modification myself anyway.
> 
UNOS' archive-reader program (installation) takes an argument to strip
a leading string from filenames, which not only handles turning absolute
pathnames into relative pathnames but also things like "/mnt/".  You might
want to adopt that.
-- 
John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (508) 626-1101
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