This is tar.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.8 from tar.texi.

   This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.15.91, 13 June 2006), which
creates and extracts files from archives.

   Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003,
2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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     being "A GNU Manual," and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a)
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     "GNU Free Documentation License".

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INFO-DIR-SECTION Archiving
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* Tar: (tar).                   Making tape (or disk) archives.
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INFO-DIR-SECTION Individual utilities
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* tar: (tar)tar invocation.                     Invoking GNU `tar'.
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