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NAME
       tardy version 1.24 - a tar post-processor
       Copyright  (C)  1993,  1994,  1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002,
       2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011	Peter Miller

       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 3 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, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

       It should be in the LICENSE file	included in this distribution.

AUTHOR
       Peter Miller   EMail:   pmiller@opensource.org.au
       /\/\*		WWW:   http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/

RELEASE	NOTES
   Version 1.24	(2011-Oct-03)
       * The  tardy(1)	command	 is  now more tolerant of tar(5) archives that
	 contain regular files labeled LD_DIRECTORY instead of LD_NORMAL.

   Version 1.23	(2011-Sep-09)
       * Thomas	<metaf4@users.askja.de>	discovered that	the V7 tar output  was
	 using	an  incorrect link flag	when writing file headers for directo-
	 ries, causing pax(1) and star(1) to complain.

       * Thomas	<metaf4@users.askja.de>	discovered that	the BSD	tar output was
	 using	an  incorrect link flag	when writing file headers for directo-
	 ries, causing mc(1) and Xarchiver(1) to complain.

       * Dagobert Michelsen <dam@opencsw.org> discovered a  build  problem  on
	 systems without the strverscmp(3) function.

   Version 1.22	(2011-May-14)
       * Thomas	 <metaf4@users.askja.de> contributed a patch to	detect reading
	 from a	terminal, or writing to	a terminal. These are usually  indica-
	 tions that the	user has failed	to supply a command line argument.

       * Tardy	is  now	 able  to  read	and write long file names in ar(1) ar-
	 chives.

       * A bug has been	fixed in the BSD ar(1) format archives,	the file  pad-
	 ding has been corrected to 2-byte boundaries.

       * The  ar(1) padding now	uses newlines, to be compatible	with GNU binu-
	 tils.

       * The ./configure script	will now  fail	if  libexplain	has  not  been
	 installed, rather than	failing	later in the build.

   Version 1.21	(2011-Mar-21)
       * Tardy is now able to automatically gunzip(1) input files gzip(1) out-
	 put files.

       * Tardy is now able to read and write several ar(1) file	formats.

       * Tardy is now able to read and write several cpio(1) file formats.

       * There is a new	tardy -relative-paths filter, it may be	used to	ensure
	 that  all file	names in the archive are relative (do not start	with a
	 '/' slash character).	This is	tidier that the	"-prefix  ."  alterna-
	 tive.

       * Tardy now uses	libexplain for improved	error messages.
	 http://libexplain.sourceforge.net/

       * There is a new	Tardy -extract option, that may	be used	to extract the
	 contents of an	archive, in any	format that Tardy understands.

       * Thomas	<metaf4@users.askja.de>	submitted a patch  that	 added	better
	 output	support	for the	USTAR archive format on.

       * Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> reported several spelling errors im
	 the man page, these have been corrected.

   Version 1.20	(2010-May-22)
       * A build problem on FreeBSD has	been fixed.

       * A build problem on Debian has been fixed.

   Version 1.19	(2010-Mar-10)
       * The Makefile.in file has been fixed so	the package  now  builds  cor-
       rectly.	 Additional  support  for  building  Debian  packages has been
       added.

   Version 1.18	(2009-Nov-29)
       * Numerous build	glitches and warnings have been	fixed.

       * There is a new	tardy -exclude option that  may	 be  used  to  exclude
       (remove)	files from the archive.

   Version 1.17	(2008-Jun-23)
       * A build problem with GCC 4.3 has been fixed [Gentoo Bug 226861].

   Version 1.16	(2008-Apr-29)
       * The tabs in the Makefile.in file have been fixed.

   Version 1.15	(2008-Apr-14)
       * The license has been updated to GNU GPL version 3.

   Version 1.12	(2004-Aug-17)
       * 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	(2002-Oct-20)
       *  A  bug  has  been  fixed  with the processing	of very	long directory
       names.

   Version 1.10	(2002-Oct-16)
       * 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 (1998-Jan-25)
       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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