OT tar question

Anyone know how I can prevent tar from including the original path names when archiving a bunch of files? I have been through the man page backwards and forwards and didn't find anything about it.
I even tried -C to force tar to switch to the folder before hand, but it still includes the path names.

Thanks,

something like this?

Code:

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(cd /path/to/files && tar cvf tarfile.tar ./ *)

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Thanks, I'll give it a try.