Error message: tar: ../ov/DHPINST: Member name contains `..'

[Lang, Thomas]

Hello 

would you please help me to extract these files.

I'm using "tar" this way for a long time. Now I got this Error message.

It's a Red Hat distribution.

sh-2.04$ uname -a
Linux alwa 2.4.2-2 #1 Sun Apr 8 20:41:30 EDT 2001 i686 unknown

Example:
sh-2.04$ tar -tvf /dev/fd0
-rwxrwxrwx dhp/usrother  14109 2000-06-05 13:17:53 ../ov/DHPINST
-rwxrwxrwx dhp/usrother   7067 2000-08-22 16:54:10 ../ov/W049.LOE


sh-2.04$ tar -xvf /dev/fd0
../ov/DHPINST
tar: ../ov/DHPINST: Member name contains `..'
../ov/W049.LOE
tar: ../ov/W049.LOE: Member name contains `..'
tar: Fehler beim Beenden, verursacht durch vorhergehende Fehler.




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