Reading Tar files

[Ti Kan]

In article <3614 at zorba.Tynan.COM> twc at sun.com (Tim Curry) writes:
>use the chroot command to temporarily change the absolute path.

On UNIX System V rel 4.0, tar supports an 'A' option which lets you
specify a prefix to pre-pend to the path of each file to be extracted.
This can be used to get around the problem of absolute path names.
SOme other implementations of tar may offer a similar feature.

-Ti
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