"fixtar" is a filter that knows what tar-format looks like, and removes
leading '/' from any absolute pathnames in the tar file.  This can
be handy if you have a tar tape with absolute paths and want to
extract the files into other locations.  You can do something like

	dd if=$TAPE ibs=10k | fixtar | tar xf -

and all the /path/names will be extracted as "path/names".

I hope this is of use to somebody.  On the whole you're probably
better off getting John Gilmore's public-domain "tar", which
also handles this problem and has many other nice features.  This
is just a quick hack solution... I've used it on 4.3 BSD, it
ought to work elsewhere but unfortunately I can't be sure.

..Steve Hayman, U. of Waterloo
  sahayman@math.waterloo.edu

P.S. No makefile (just "cc -o fixtar fixtar.c" should do it), no man page,
  no apologies :-)
