* George Toft (george@georgetoft.com) wrote:
> "Autolocating" is a feature of any tarball that was created with 
> absolute paths, and is usually considered "a bad thing" as you can't
> untar it to inspect the contents very easy.  Even without absolute
> paths, 
> untarring any tarball in the / directory will "relocate" stuff for you.  
> 
> George
> 

Depending on what you mean by 'inspect', on most RH based distros (and maybe
others) one can 'less' a tar archive and see a list of files contained there.
Maybe with RPMs too. I haven't looked to see if that's a feature of less or
some distro/gnu\/linux specific thing.

Speaking of BSD... Did I hear mention that there is a local BSD users group?

Gontran
> 
> Craig White wrote:
> > [ hooking up bash for Mac OSX ]