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NAME
       tardy version 1.11 - a tar post-processor
       Copyright  (C)  1993,  1994, 1995, 1996,	1998, 1999, 2000,
       2001, 2002 Peter	Miller;
       All rights reserved.

       The tardy program is distributed	under the  terms  of  the
       GNU  General  Public  License.	See  the LICENSE section,
       below, for more details.

       tardy a., slow to act, behind time.

DESCRIPTION
       The tardy program is a tar(1) post-processor.  It  may  be
       used  to	 manipulate  the  file	headers	in tar(5) archive
       files in	various	ways.

       The reason the tardy program was	written	was  because  the
       author  wanted to "spruce up" his tar files before posting
       them to the net,	mostly to remove artefacts of the  devel-
       opment environment, without introducing more.

       The  tardy program was designed to allow	you to alter cer-
       tain  characteristics  of  files	 AFTER	they  have   been
       included	in the TAR file.  Among	them are:

       * change	file owner (by NUMBER or NAME)
       * change	file group (by NUMBER or NAME)
       * add directory prefix (dot is a	really useful prefix)
       * change	file protections (for example from 600 to 644)

       Note that all of	these affect ALL files in the archive.

BUILDING
       Instructions  on	 how  to build and test	the tardy program
       are to be found in the BUILDING file included in	this dis-
       tribution.

LICENSE
       The  tardy  program is free software; you can redistribute
       it and/or modify	it under the terms  of	the  GNU  General
       Public  License	as published by	the Free Software Founda-
       tion; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
       any later version.

       The  tardy program is distributed in the	hope that it will
       be useful, but WITHOUT  ANY  WARRANTY;  without	even  the
       implied	warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PAR-
       TICULAR PURPOSE.	 See the GNU General Public  License  for
       more details.

       You  should have	received a copy	of the GNU General Public
       License along with this program;	if not,	write to the Free
       Software	 Foundation,  Inc.,  59	 Temple	Place, Suite 330,
       Boston, MA 02111, USA.

       It should be in the LICENSE file	included in this  distri-
       bution.





AUTHOR
       Peter Miller   EMail:   millerp@canb.auug.org.au
       /\/\*		WWW:   http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/































































RELEASE	NOTES
   Version 1.11
       *  A  bug  has been fixed with the processing of	very long
       directory names.

   Version 1.10
       * Some documentation errors have	been corrected.

       * Some build problems have been fixed.

   Version 1.9
       * A number fo build problems have been fixed.

       * Support has been added	for long names.

   Version 1.8
       * The generated Makefile.in file	was missing  some  depen-
       dencies.	 This has been fixed.

   Version 1.7
       *  A number of files were missing from the tarball.  These
       have been added.

   Version 1.6
       * Build and test	problems caused	by the recent RH7 release
       have been fixed.

   Version 1.5
       * Tardy has been	entirely re-written in C++.

       *  Tardy	 now  understands cpio formats in addition to tar
       formats.

       * Tardy now comes with an RPM package spec.

   Version 1.4
       Never had a public release.

   Version 1.3
       Never had a public release.

   Version 1.2
       * This version of tardy now uses	a GNU autoconf	generated
       configure script	to automatically configure the tardy pro-
       gram.



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