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Re: Problem - untaring enhydra-src4_0_tar
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Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]>
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Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 28 May 2001 19:59:16 +0200
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>There also exists a program called pax as part of FOS that allows
>translation "on the fly" of certain names. So, you can use pax
>to untar a tarball and translate @ to something more appropriate.

Cute. Thanks for mentioning pax, Mark. This filename translation
feature seems to even allow renaming absolute filenames to relative
ones! Very handy for unpacking tar files that have been packaged
with absolute pathnames when those absolute pathnames do not match
the desired location on the target system.

Lars.

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