diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 29ba285..a3aae80 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -9,7 +9,10 @@ current working directory.
 Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> wrote the fix to prevent 
 stow -D / stow -R removing initially-empty directories.
 
-Adam Lackorzynski <al10@inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote the fix to prevente
+Adam Lackorzynski <al10@inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote the fix which prevents
 the generation of wrong links if there are links in the stow directory.
 
+Anthony R Iano-Fletcher <Anthony.Iano-Fletcher@cbel.cit.nih.gov> 
+contributed the '--subdirs' option.
+
 Stow is currently maintained by Guillaume Morin <gmorin@gnu.org>.
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6972ca6..c1cde93 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Tue Jan 08 23:00:29 2002  Guillaume Morin  <gmorin@gnu.org>
+
+    * stow.in: added the '--subdir' option.
+    * stow.texi,stow.8: documented '--subdir'
+
 Sun Jan 06 12:18:50 2002  Guillaume Morin  <gmorin@gnu.org>
 
     * Makefile.am: use EXTRA_DIST to include manpage in distribution
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 1c292ed..3b1499a 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ dnl Process this file with Autoconf to produce configure
 AC_INIT(stow.in)
 
 PACKAGE=stow
-VERSION=1.3.3
+VERSION=1.3.3pre4
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(stow, $VERSION)
 AC_SUBST(PACKAGE)
 AC_SUBST(VERSION)
diff --git a/stow.8 b/stow.8
index 339531f..f385a57 100644
--- a/stow.8
+++ b/stow.8
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ stow \- software package installation manager
 .RI [ options ]
 .IR package ...
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-This manual page describes GNU Stow 1.3.3, a program for managing the
+This manual page describes GNU Stow 1.3.4, a program for managing the
 installation of software packages. This is not the definitive
 documentation for stow; for that, see the info manual.
 .PP
@@ -188,6 +188,13 @@ Set the stow directory to DIR instead of the current directory.
 This also has the effect of making the default target directory be
 the parent of DIR.
 .TP
+.I "-s DIRS"
+.TP
+.I --subdirs=DIRS
+Set the subdirectories of the package directory that are to be installed to a
+colon delimited list of directories (e.g. bin:man or bin:lib:man).  The default
+is to install all the subdirectories.
+.TP
 .I "-t DIR"
 .TP
 .I --target=DIR
diff --git a/stow.in b/stow.in
index aee5885..8750754 100644
--- a/stow.in
+++ b/stow.in
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ $ReportHelp = 0;
 $Stow = undef;
 $Target = undef;
 $Restow = 0;
+@Subdirs = ();
 
 
 # FIXME: use Getopt::Long
@@ -68,6 +69,15 @@ while (@ARGV && ($_ = $ARGV[0]) && /^-/) {
       } else {
 	$Target = shift;
       }
+    } elsif ($opt =~ /^s(u(b(d(i(rs?)?)?)?)?)?/i) {
+      $remainder = $';
+      if ($remainder =~ /^=/) {
+        $remainder = $'; # the stuff after the =
+      } else {
+        $remainder = shift; # the following argument
+      }
+      @Subdirs = split(/:/, $remainder);
+      warn "remainder='$remainder' Subdirs = (@Subdirs)\n" if ($Verbose > 1);
     } elsif ($opt =~ /^verb(o(se?)?)?/i) {
       $remainder = $';
       if ($remainder =~ /^=(\d+)/) {
@@ -105,6 +115,9 @@ while (@ARGV && ($_ = $ARGV[0]) && /^-/) {
 	$Delete = 1;
       } elsif ($_ eq 'R') {
 	$Restow = 1;
+      } elsif ($_ eq 's') { 
+        @Subdirs = split(/:/, (join('', @opts) || shift));
+        @opts = ();
       } elsif ($_ eq 'V') {
 	&version();
       } else {
@@ -147,7 +160,7 @@ if ($Delete || $Restow) {
 if (!$Delete || $Restow) {
   foreach $Collection (@ARGV) {
     warn "Stowing package $Collection...\n" if $Verbose;
-    &StowContents($Collection, &RelativePath($Target, $Stow));
+    &StowContents($Collection, &RelativePath($Target, $Stow), @Subdirs);
   }
 }
 
@@ -323,17 +336,25 @@ sub EmptyTree {
 }
 
 sub StowContents {
-  local($dir, $stow) = @_;
+  local($dir, $stow, @subdirs) = @_;
   local(@contents);
   local($content);
 
-  warn "Stowing contents of $dir\n" if ($Verbose > 1);
+  local $text_subdirs = scalar(@subdirs) ? "/{".join(',',@subdirs)."} " : " ";
+  
+  warn "Stowing contents of $dir in $stow".$text_subdirs."\n" if ($Verbose > 1);
   opendir(DIR, &JoinPaths($Stow, $dir))
     || die "$ProgramName: Cannot read directory \"$dir\" ($!)\n";
   @contents = readdir(DIR);
   closedir(DIR);
   foreach $content (@contents) {
     next if (($content eq '.') || ($content eq '..'));
+
+    if (scalar(@subdirs)) {
+    	warn "Checking $content against (".join(",",@subdirs).")\n" if ($Verbose > 2);
+    	next if (!grep($_ eq $content, @subdirs));
+    }
+
     if (-d &JoinPaths($Stow, $dir, $content)) {
       &StowDir(&JoinPaths($dir, $content), $stow);
     } else {
@@ -525,6 +546,8 @@ sub usage {
   -c, --conflicts       Scan for conflicts, implies -n
   -d DIR, --dir=DIR     Set stow dir to DIR (default is current dir)
   -t DIR, --target=DIR  Set target to DIR (default is parent of stow dir)
+  -s DIR:DIR,
+     --subdirs=DIR:DIR  Set subdirs to recurse to DIR:DIR (default is all subdirs)
   -v, --verbose[=N]     Increase verboseness (levels are 0,1,2,3;
                           -v or --verbose adds 1; --verbose=N sets level)
   -D, --delete          Unstow instead of stow
diff --git a/stow.texi b/stow.texi
index d06998f..7587f23 100644
--- a/stow.texi
+++ b/stow.texi
@@ -247,6 +247,13 @@ Set the stow directory to @var{dir} instead of the current directory.
 This also has the effect of making the default target directory be the
 parent of @var{dir}.
 
+@item -s @var{dirs}
+@itemx --subdirs=@var{dirs}
+Set the subdirectories of the package directory that are to be installed 
+to a colon delimited list of directories
+(e.g. @samp{bin:man} or @samp{bin:lib:man}).
+The default is to install all the subdirectories.
+
 @item -t @var{dir}
 @itemx --target=@var{dir}
 Set the target directory to @var{dir} instead of the parent of the stow