>> Please commit this. (It makes things like the distrib/cdrom Makefile a lot
>> simpler to deal with for instance as it extracts one-off files from the 
>> tarballs for some cd images).
>
>I'd very much prefer to see the src/distrib tools make use only of 'pax'
>(with it's truly _standard_ command-line interface), and I see no reason
>why temporary directories cannot be safely and easily used in this
>situation.

because sometimes i just want to do

	tar -bundleofoptions tarfile| less

and read a file.  i don't want to have to muck with temporary
directories.

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