I think everyone is just saying that this is a non-standard tar feature. Different tars work in different ways. You have to ask specifically about the tar you are using. i.e. I often use Tru64 at work, it defaults to keeping the leading '/', but uses the -s to strip it off. The tar that ships with SuSE defaults to striping it off, and uses a -P to keep it. I have no idea what Solaris uses, you will have to RTM for Solaris, not SuSE. Greg
My experience is that users who are very secretive about versions of their tools and OS often use a commercial Unix and seek help in Linux groups since they know they will get very fast response there. I don't say it's bad but they don't realize the XPG4,... based tools found in commercial Unixes sometimes differ a lot from GNU tools and thus they waste time of people who try to help them. I don't say it is your case, it's just my experience from other e-mail lists.
Wasn't attempting to be deliberately secretive. I use Solaris and SuSE Linux daily... to the point I often neglect to differentiate between them. I use KDE on both... use the same basic tools etc. They start to look the same after a while, and I get tied up in the problem and forget that there are some fundamental underlying differences. Gets me into a bit of hassle once in a while.
The actual file itself I thought was not a big issue.. it is a non commercial tar file. I had similar behaviour with other tar files that I experimented with under the same conditions. But, like I said in an earlier email, I may be just having finger problems too. I was actually hoping to learn more about the way tar works rather than waste anyone's time. I will chew through it again tomorrow and see what happens.
To those that have been bearing with me on this, thanks... much food for thought. I will not harp on about the issue... if it doesn't work for whatever reason, I will untar on my home machine, and move on.
Later C.
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Greg Freemyer Internet Engineer Deployment and Integration Specialist Compaq ASE - Tru64 Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect The Norcross Group www.NorcrossGroup.com