How can I read a cpio archive with absolute pathnames?

[Randy Suess]

In article <5232 at cup.portal.com> itkin at cup.portal.com writes:
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]>There is a comp.sources program called fixcpio that fixes damaged cpio 
]>archives (it's great for skipping over that one bad spot in a set of 
]>floppy backups).  It could be easily modified to remove a leading / 
]>from files names.  
]>Jon Zeeff           		Branch Technology,
]
]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.

	Oh?  And where is the person that just chroot'd going to find
	cpio, /dev/whatever, etc?  Turns out that you need a whole
	bunch of programs moved to the subdirectory you want to
	be in.  Chroot is not a nice command.
	Seems Jon's idea is simpler.

-randy


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