PAX problems with linked files

[Glenn Fowler[drew]]

In article <1122 at frog.UUCP>, john at frog.UUCP (John Woods) writes:
> In article <1989Mar17.174014.15444 at tmsoft.uucp>, woods at tmsoft.uucp (Greg Woods) writes:
> > I would also like to see extraction always create under the current
> > directory, regardless of whether there is a leading slash on the ...
> UNOS' archive-reader program (installation) takes an argument to strip
> a leading string from filenames, which not only handles turning ...

no need to hack the semantics

the -s option allows ed(1) style substitutions on archive pathnames
	-s ',^/*,,'
makes all archive pathnames relative to . and
	-s ',.*/,,'
collapses all pathnames to ./<base> (any delimiter, `comma' here, is valid)
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