extracting tar files with absolute pathnames relatively

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

In article <1501 at cfa205.cfa250.harvard.edu> todd at cfa250.harvard.edu (Todd Karakashian) writes:
>I am in posession of tapes containing tarfiles with absolute
>pathnames.  What I would like to do is to extract these files into a
>different tree structure than they were tarred from.

I'm at a slight disadvantage, this site has not got the original message,
but:
	
	I take it you're running some version of tar which does not have
	the 'A' option? Stripping leading '/' from a restore is precisely
	what that option does.
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