From: franl AT world DOT std DOT REMOVETHIS DOT com (Francis Litterio) Subject: Re: Handling ... 4 Apr 1997 23:19:06 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: References: <199704040216 DOT UAA31324 AT mushroom DOT pswtech DOT com> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Chris Cowan 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. -- Francis Litterio PGP Key Fingerprint: franl AT world DOT RemoveThis DOT std DOT com 02 37 DF 6C 66 43 CD 2C http://world.std.com/~franl/ 10 C8 B5 8B 57 34 F3 21 Email address altered to protect against spamming. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Ben Franklin, ~1784 - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".