How can I read a cpio archive with absolute pathnames?

[Michael T Sullivan]

In article <5506 at chinet.UUCP>, randy at chinet.UUCP (Randy Suess) writes:
> In article <5232 at cup.portal.com> itkin at cup.portal.com writes:
> ]>
> ]>There is a comp.sources program called fixcpio that fixes damaged cpio 
> ]How about keeping it simple?  Use 'chroot' to specify a new root directory
> ]relative to something you like and then move/rename the file once it's there.
> 	be in.  Chroot is not a nice command.
> 	Seems Jon's idea is simpler.

Jon's idea was much simpler.  I got fixcpio, made a few quick mods,
and it does just what we want it to do.  Quick and easy, how nice.

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