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This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.23.90, 8 July 2010), which
creates and extracts files from archives.

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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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