extracting files from a tar file

[Chuck Karish]

In article <6155 at bgsuvax.UUCP> fyfe at bgsuvax.UUCP (Bob Fyfe) writes:
>I have a faculty member who has brought a tape with him from a different site.
>It is a tar tape and the files were stored using absolute pathnames...

>I was wondering if there are any PD programs that exist or whether someone
>has written a script to get around this problem.

    The 'pax' program, written by Mark Colburn for USENIX, lets you
    edit the path prefixes on extraction, using a 'sed'-like pattern.
    It understands both tar and cpio formats, and the new POSIX tar
    format.

    Available from the comp.org.usenix archives, or on the USENIX
    sofrware distribution tapes.
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