Re: [Bug-tar] Issue in extracting different hard drive in windows

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Mohankumar <address@hidden> wrote:

> When I try to extract this tar its get copied to the same location 
> (C:\Progra~1\Backup\config.txt).
>  
> But, I need to extract the files in temporary directory in different drive 
> (say D:\temp).
>  
> Is there an option in the GNU tar version which i'm using.

There is no need to give any special options: by default GNU tar will remove
leading C: before extracting. 

Regards,
Sergey