Donna Garverick wrote:
>
> well almost.  once i removed the leading space from each line of
'filelist'
> (in the above example) -- then tar was perfectly happy and made the
correct
> tarball.  many thanks! :-)         - d

You can use 'sed' to remove the space if you want to automate this.  You
won't even need to change it if they ever fix listfile:

listfile ./DSG@,6 >X1
sed '"s/^ //"' <X1 >X2
tar '-cvf tartest -' <X2

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