extracting tar files with absolute pathnames relatively

[Dick Gill]

In article <2620 at ssc-vax.UUCP> ray3rd at ssc-vax.UUCP (Ray E Saddler III) writes:
>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
...
>
>Make a link (symbolic in my instance) in the /usr directory.  The
>link name would be 'foo', and would simply point to /temp.
>
>It works quite nicely.
>
This sounds to simple and straightforward to be true. Walk me
through this step by step, please.

Thanks.


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