Restore(8) bug (yet another...) 4.2BSD

[Greg Woods]

  I have found what I think is a bug in restore(8) on a VAX 750 under 4.2BSD.
I would like to know if anyone else has seen it and if there is a fix for it
(I'd settle for a way to get around it). I want to restore a directory from
a dump tape that has a LOT of files in it (too many to type them all in
individually), and just a few subdirectories. Unfortunately, those sub-
directories contain some very large files that I don't want and which won't
all fit on the disk with its current contents. So, I tried typing "add .",
which seems to work (it has worked in the past to restore heirarchies, and
cd'ing around and using "ls" shows that everything is properly marked for
extraction). The problem comes in that when I try to delete the subdirectories
I don't want, it always says 

file: not on extraction list

Tnis despite the fact that "ls" marks it with a "*" (which supposedly indicates
that it IS on the extraction list).
   I have tried "./dir", "dir", "/woods/dir", cd / and delete woods/dir, all
with the same result. So, is this a bug or am I reading the man page wrong?
It seems as though ANY of those should work but none of them do. I have also
tried the same things with individual files instead of directories, also with 
the same negative results. Is there ANY way to extract all but a few files 
under a given directory without typing in all the &%#@*! names by hand?

--Greg