[Bug-tar] Re: Ver 1.13 "-g" Prepends New Dir to Filenames Under Solaris 8

[Tony Kocurko]

Hi,

 My apologies. The issue had been raised over a year ago:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2003-01/msg00032.html

Tony Kocurko wrote:

> # Comments  : Using the "--listed-incremental=FILE_NAME" command line 
> switch
> #             of version 1.13 tar under Solaris 8 causes leading 
> directory
> #             path names to be prepended with a directory path 
> component that
> #             consists of eleven decimal digits followed by a '/' 
> character. 


 The question then becomes is there a tidy way to extract files correctly
that have had those bogus directories prepended to the archived files?

Regards,
Tony Kocurko