[LUNI] Question about TAR...

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While traversing the irc.openprojects.net IRC server, I came across an 
interesting question of another user, and after spending a good twenty 
minutes on trying to figure it out, I can't seem to.  Hopefully somebody 
here has an answer that does NOT include the RM and MV commands:

Here's how the original question was posed:

lets say in snafu.tar i have /mnt/foo/blah, i want to extract 
/mnt/foo/blah/* to /blah, cwd is /blah how do i do that?

The way that I interpret this, explained in more detail:

snafu.tar contains files which were in the directory path /mnt/foo/blah, 
and the filenames are:
/mnt/foo/blah/bar1
/mnt/foo/blah/bar2
/mnt/foo/blah/bar3
/mnt/foo/blah/bar4
/mnt/foo/blah/bar5

and I want to extract bar1 thru bar5 into /blah instead of making it come 
out as  /blah/mnt/foo/blah/*

Make sense?  Need more clarification?  HELP!

Gregg