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> You need some sort of "extract me in-place, please" hint to make it
> work.  Now that tar has been hacked with --fast-read (and I agree, the
> name could be better) it should be possible to actually do cleverer
> things like this.

By all means, change it! My creative skills will not be offended the 
least when you have a better name! Changing the option in the existing
software that uses it will not be the stumbling block.


Marc.

Marc van Kempen                    wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl

He's dead Jim ..., kick him if you don't believe me.