tar frustration (was Re: relative pathname question!)

[Ron Natalie]

The reason you can't just do "tar cv `cat filenames`" is that tar will always
search down through directories.  Someone pointed out that Gilmore's PD tar
has a -T option that will allow you to avoid this while reading a file.  If
this is so, I suggest people get a copy.  My cpio-user-interfaced tar is not
really distribution quality but it does work.

-Ron