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

   This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.15.92, 11 September 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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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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Node: assumptions21648
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Node: Free Software Needs Free Documentation446630
Node: Copying This Manual451601
Node: GNU Free Documentation License451883
Node: Index of Command Line Options474290
Node: Index496124

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