Many thanks to the 17 people who have responded so far!
Most of the messages pointed to the same solution; the one from Dick Abraham
summarises them well:
"tar -xvs will strip the leading slashes from the restored path names.
Which will give you what you want
tar -xvP /mnt/giss will remove the /mnt/giss from the restored path names.
Which will also do what you want."
I tried the "tar -xvs" option and I was able to untar the files onto my
/ibm/pe/data/sonomagis directory just fine. It did leave me with a very
long pathname before I got to the data
(/ibm/pe/data/sonomagis/mnt/giss/gisdata/lotlines), but that was okay with
me. I think if I have used the second solution (tar -xvP
/mnt/giss/gisdata), I could have shortened the path name.
Thanks again to this great list,
Colin
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Colin Brooks
GIS Program Analyst
Integrated Hardwood Range Management Program
Hopland Research & Extension Center
4070 University Rd.
Hopland, CA 95449
Primary #'s - TEL:(707)744-1270 FAX:(707)744-1040
Work E-mail: cbrooks_at_nature.berkeley.edu
http://www.pacific.net/~cbrooks/gis1.htm
I'm also found at:
ESPM, University of California - Berkeley
160 Mulford Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-3114
Secondary #'s - TEL: 510-643-1136 FAX: 510-643-5438
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Received on Thu Jan 23 1997 - 00:42:49 NZDT