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Subject: tar and /
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hi,
for security reasons tar removes the leading /, which is fine.
so I can chadir to /var/tmp, and do an extract there. The problem arises =
when there
is a file that is linked to /=85
Is there some way to drop that leading =91/=91 too?

cheers,