Am 11.07.2021 um 19:58 schrieb jr:

>>> downloaded the 'povunix' as recommended, was surprised the archive unpacks in
>>> the cwd rather than in a sub-directory.
>>
>> If you can help wrangling the `tar` and/or `gzip` command to rectify
>> that, I'd appreciate it.
...
> had not known '--anchored', interesting.  I guess simplest would be just
> repacking, something like (any typos mine):
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I think I've found something: Adding `--transform "s,^,FOO/,"` to the 
parameters should do the job (for a suitable definition of `FOO`). 
Requires GNU, but we don't need this to work on end-users' machines.

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