Please help !!! A very simple question for you.

[Narayanan Krishnan]

Could you tell me how to achieve the following.

Let say I need to extract the file  d:\temp\x.tar

My current working directory is say c:\temp

I want to run my tar commannd from this c\temp directory itself.

I want to extract the file and put the directory at the same location as the
tar file itself. This is a requirement

Im trying

c:\temp > tar xvf d:\temp\x.tar --force-local -C d:\temp


It doesnt work . The error is

tar: Cannot change to directory /TEMP/d:        emp: No such file or
directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Do you have any suggestions. I know you can move to different directories in
the -C command , but cant seem to do that for different drives on the same
local machine.

Thanks.

Narayanan Krishnan
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