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@@ -30,25 +30,22 @@ so that the GNU extensions (--sparse, --incremental, --label and
   It would be useful to be able to use '--remove-files' with '--diff',
   to remove all files that compare successfully, when verifying a backup.
 
-* Add an option to cut away the first N output path elements:
+* Add tests for testing the added functonality.
 
-  From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>
-  Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:55:31 +0200
+* Consider this:
 
-  some archives have members like
-  foo/bar
-  foo/baz
-  foo/bam
-  
-  When I now want to extract the three members bar, baz and bam to the
-  directory fom instead foo, I need to extract to foo and then to move
-  the files over manually.
+  From: Dennis Pund
+  Subject: TAR suggestion...
+  Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 18:26:36 -0500 (EST)
 
-  patch(1) solves that problem by offering an option taking the number
-  of path elements to cut away before using the path name. With an
-  option like that, the above problem could be solved with
+  What I would like to do is:
 
-  tar --extract --cut-path-elements 1 --directory fom
+  foo my.tar.gz | tar -xzOf - | tar -cMf - -L 650000 - | bar
+
+  where 'foo' is a program that retrieves the archive and streams it
+  to stdout and bar is a program that streams the stdin to CDR.
+
+  (http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-05/msg00022.html)
 
   
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