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NAME
tardy version 1.12 - a tar post-processor
Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002,
2003, 2004 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 manip-
ulate 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 development environment, without introducing
more.
The tardy program was designed to allow you to alter certain character-
istics 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 distribution.
LICENSE
The tardy program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or mod-
ify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation; 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 MER-
CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 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 distribution.
AUTHOR
Peter Miller EMail: millerp@canb.auug.org.au
/\/\* WWW: http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/
RELEASE NOTES
Version 1.12 (17-Aug-2004)
- Tardy has a new home page, http://tardy.sourceforge.net/
- The tardy --remove-prefix option has been extended to accept a numeric argument, giving the count of directories to be removed.
- A bug has been fixed in the tardy --reomve-prefix option. If there is a directory named exactly for the prefix being removed, it is now renamed to "." rather than being left unaltered.
- The tar output has been altered to be consistent with GNU Tar 1.14 and later. As of GNU Tar 1.14, it warns if the block size on input is not what it expects. Tardy now uses the same default block size as GNU Tar when writing tarballs, which silences the GNU Tar warning.
Version 1.11 (20-Oct-2002)
- A bug has been fixed with the processing of very long directory names.
Version 1.10 (16-Oct-2002)
- Some documentation errors have been corrected.
- Some build problems have been fixed.
Version 1.9 (27-Aug-2001)
- A number fo build problems have been fixed.
- Support has been added for long names.
Version 1.8 (24-Oct-2001)
- The generated Makefile.in file was missing some dependencies. This has been fixed.
Version 1.7 (23-Oct-2001)
- A number of files were missing from the tarball. These have been added.
Version 1.6 (23-Oct-2001)
- Build and test problems caused by the recent RH7 release have been fixed.
Version 1.5 (13-Sep-2000)
- 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 (25-Jan-1998)
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 program.
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