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From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
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Subject: Re: extracting tar files with absolute pathnames relatively
Keywords: tar pathname links mirrors slight-of-hand
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Date: 28 Apr 89 04:18:07 GMT
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The simplest solution to this is to get a copy of pdtar from me.  pdtar
has several options to change file names.  -A simply removes the first
"/" to give a relative path name.  -Pnn allows specifying how many "/dir"
elements are to be removed.

pdtar runs under SCO Xenix, MSDOS, 2.9-4.3 UNIX, etc.

Disclaimer:	Programming is too important to leave to programmers!

Earl H. Kinmonth
History Department
University of California, Davis
916-752-1636 (voice, fax [2300-0800 PDT])
916-752-0776 secretary

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