I'll just try this:<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: monospace; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">/usr/bin/cp /usr/sbin/static/tar /tmp<br>
/usr/bin/dd if=file.tar | /usr/bin/chroot /tmp ./tar xf -</span></div><div><br></div><div>And see what happens. It's a short-term situation, so this should be sufficient.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 1:13 PM, John Lange <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@johnlange.ca">john@johnlange.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">You can always download and compile GNU tar on Solaris if you need it.<br>
I had to do that once some years back because of some Solaris bug that<br>
prevented me from untaring.<br>
<br>
It only takes a few minutes and saves a lot of time in the long run<br>
trying to figure out the Solaris tar equivalents of the GNU tar<br>
commands you're used to.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
John<br>
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