Re: : Can files in gzipped tarballs be extracted without paths?

On 14-07-31 11:20 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> 
>   Thanks.  That's what I was looking for.  Let's just say that the tar
> man page is "rather terse".

Gnu stuff usually has more complete explanations in the info page. At
least through user interaction and contribution their man pages have
improved. To replace one flawed system with another radically different
flawed system (which requires most Debian-based user distros to pull in
2GB+ of TeX Live just to process texinfo files) was never a good idea.

 Stewart
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