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[dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de]

Hi Chris, you wrote:

: I have gnutar image that I made in an OSF DFS environment.
: Unfortunately, I made the image with absolute paths, so all of the
: items start with the /... prefix.  I can't untar it because I can't
: create a directory named /... or ...
: 
: I have tried to make folders in NT explorer, the DOS console and under
: bash.   I've also tried to map /... and ... using the mount command.
: None of these work.

I thought gnutar defaults to removing the leading slash from absolute paths
and issues a warning about this. b17.1 is also gnutar, check it's --help
for an option about stripping a given prefix. You might use "tvv" to see
what the archive actually contains.


Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
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