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Re: Handling ...
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- Subject: Re: Handling ...
- From: franl at world dot std dot REMOVETHIS dot com (Francis Litterio)
- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 23:14:53 GMT
- Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
- References: <199704040216.UAA31324@mushroom.pswtech.com>
Chris Cowan <cowan@pswtech.com> wrote:
> I have gnutar image that I made in an OSF DFS environment.
> Unfortunately, I made the image with absolute paths, so all of the
> items start with the /... prefix. I can't untar it because I can't
> create a directory named /... or ...
> I have tried to make folders in NT explorer, the DOS console and under
> bash. I've also tried to map /... and ... using the mount command.
> None of these work.
> Presently, I stymied. Does anyone have a suggestion around this
> problem?
Fire up a suitably powerful editor (e.g., NTEmacs) on the tar file,
and carefully change the relevant occurances of /... to /xyz (if none
of the files in the tar file contain the character sequence "/...",
you can globally replace all occurances of that sequence). Then mkdir
/xyz and untar the file.
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