Tardy 1.11

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" 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 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 (e.g. dot)
change file protections (e.g. from 600 to 644)

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

Tardy runs on almost any flavor of UNIX. The source distribution is self configuring using a GNU Autoconf generated configure script.

Files for Download

File Name	Description
`tardy-1.11.README`	The `README` file from the tar distribution.
`tardy-1.11.lsm`	Brief description in LSM format.
`tardy-1.11.spec`	RedHat package manager specification file (RPM), from the tar file
`tardy-1.11.tar.gz`	The complete source.

Tardy is also available from the Linux archives in the devel/make directory.

Tardy is written and owned by Peter Miller and is freely distributable under the terms and conditions of the GNU GPL.

Tardy is developed using Aegis, a transaction based software configuration management package.

There is more Software by Peter Miller at his home page.

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