On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, William T Wilson wrote: > Maybe you should try it with the -C option? > > (cd somedir; tar cf - .) | tar -xf -C <otherdir> - Well cat file | tar cf - | tar xf - >otherfile will not even work. George Bonser If NT is the answer, you didn't understand the question. (NOTE: Stolen sig) http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system.