>>>>> "Luke" == Luke Vanderfluit <Luke> writes:

Luke> Hi, I have a slight tar problem (no I haven't been smoking!)

Luke> I have a tar file foo.tar when I extract it, it has the the
Luke> following error messages

pax -r -s '/^\.\././' < foo.tar

Tar can't fix this one;  pax can.

(You may need to install pax -- it's the POSIX answer to create peace
after the tar vs cpio wars, and can read and write both formats)

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