Justin Banks wrote:
> When untarring a tarball that was created with absolute paths, the tar
> command should prepend a . to all pathnames unless specifically told not
> to in order to keep the command from potentially clobbering all system
> files. See http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=1223447
> which has been around since '05

Did you try "gtar" instead?

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James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <carls...@workingcode.com>
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