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From: rg@psgdc (Dick Gill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: extracting tar files with absolute pathnames relatively
Summary: Is it really that easy?
Keywords: tar pathname
Message-ID: <202@psgdc>
Date: 22 Apr 89 20:42:16 GMT
References: <1501@cfa205.cfa250.harvard.edu> <2620@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Reply-To: rg@psgdc.UUCP (Dick Gill)
Organization: Professional Solutions Group, Vienna VA
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In article <2620@ssc-vax.UUCP> ray3rd@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ray E Saddler III) writes:
>In article <1501@cfa205.cfa250.harvard.edu>, todd@cfa250.harvard.edu (Todd Karakashian) writes:
>> I am in posession of tapes containing tarfiles with absolute
...
>
>Make a link (symbolic in my instance) in the /usr directory.  The
>link name would be 'foo', and would simply point to /temp.
>
>It works quite nicely.
>
This sounds to simple and straightforward to be true. Walk me
through this step by step, please.

Thanks.


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