[Bug-tar] question regarding extraction to different paths (request)

[Igor Lautar]

Hi,

I appologize if this is not the correct mailing-list, but it is the only one
for GNU tar...

I have the following situation:

/dir1/file1
/dir1/file2

I create new archive by archiving /dir1.

Now I create

/dir2
/dir3

Is it possible to extract file1 into /dir2 and file2 into dir3?

and

Is it possible to extract both files into same directory, but so that dir1
is not created?
This would give (if using dir2):

/dir2/file1
/dir2/file2

I know that this is possible if I create archive within /dir1 directory,
but can it be done if I specify dir?
(the problem with creating directly from files, and not directory is when
 I need to restore into original location, and directory does not exist,
 But permissions must be the same as before - some kind of backup).

Thx,
Igor