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The tardy program is a tar post-processor. It may be used to manipulate the
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file headers in tar archive files in various ways.
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The reason the tardy program was written was because the author wanted to
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"spruce up" tar files before posting them to the net, mostly to remove
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artefacts of the development environment, without introducing more.
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The tardy program was designed to allow you to alter certain characteristics
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of files after they have been included in the tar file. Among them are:
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* change file owner (by number or name)
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* change file group (by number or name)
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* add directory prefix (e.g. dot)
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* change file protections (e.g. from 600 to 644)
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Note that all of these affect ALL files in the archive.
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WWW: http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/tardy.html
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