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Date:      Tue, 15 Sep 1998 02:18:34 -0500 (EST)
From:      Kenneth Chiu <chiuk@cs.indiana.edu>
To:        "Jose M. Megias Sanchez" <jms@caja-granada.es>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Problem extracting files with tar
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980915021408.4580B-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <01bde072$15084900$00008282@jms>

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Try:

	tar xvfbz root@mulhacen:/dev/nrst0 20 'usr/sbin/ppp*'

instead of

	tar xvfbz root@mulhacen:/dev/nrst0 20 '/usr/sbin/ppp*'

On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Jose M. Megias Sanchez wrote:
> Yes, the leading / was stripped from the file names in my tar archive. When
> I use the command
>     tar xvfbz root@mulhacen:/dev/nrst0 20
> I see the following:
>     -r--r--r-- root/wheel     3425 Jul 22 08:16 1998 COPYRIGHT
> drwxr-xr-x bin/bin           0 Sep  1 11:44 1998 bin/
> -r-xr-xr-x bin/bin       57344 Jul 22 08:10 1998 bin/cat
> -r-xr-xr-x bin/bin       45056 Jul 22 08:10 1998 bin/chio
> -r-xr-xr-x bin/bin       53248 Jul 22 08:10 1998 bin/chmod
> -r-xr-xr-x bin/bin       61440 Jul 22 08:10 1998 bin/cp
> -r-xr-xr-x bin/bin      249856 Jul 22 08:10 1998 bin/csh
> -r-xr-xr-x bin/bin      139264 Jul 22 08:10 1998 bin/date
> -r-xr-xr-x bin/bin       61440 Jul 22 08:10 1998 bin/dd
> -r-xr-sr-x bin/operator  53248 Jul 22 08:10 1998 bin/df
> 
> 
>     What can I do now?. Thank you.


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