restore(1) dumpfile to directory rather than filesystem -- possible?

[Wojciech Puchar]

> On a 6.2 system, I am making some backups using dump(1)
>
> I would like to test the integrity of these dumpfiles by using
> restore(1) to restore them.
>
> However, I don't have an actual live filesystem available to test this
> on....can I just restore to a directory on an existing fs to be sure?

of course. only dump requires raw filesystem, restore operates on files 
only