On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Todd Whitesel wrote:

> Perhaps the better solution is to chroot the tar/pax process and pipe the
> distribution sets into it. I've been pushing the piping concept for FTP
> lately, and based on what I see while shuffling boot disks lately, disk
> seek time dominates anyway so there's no bottleneck from using pipes.
> 
	I belive pax honours TMPDIR

		David/absolute