Elijah Merkin <e...@transas.com> added the comment: Sorry for not explaining properly, I was distracted.
1. The absolute path really exists in the .tar.gz file when I view it in a hex editor. 2. Windows archive managers I tried see that absolute path. 3. Linux tar utility, however, somehow manages to extract the file correctly to the original relative path. That's very strange... ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5500> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com