In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > tar -zxf control.tar.gz control ./control
You can also use tar -zxf control.tar.gz *control which does not produce an error, and extracts either one. This is the fix I supplied for lintian when the tar upstream changed the way pathname whacking happens in tar... which our tools depended on. Given that we know what's in a control.tar.gz, the wildcard is not problematic. Bdale