This is tar.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.8.90 from tar.texi.

   This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.18, 16 June 2007), which
creates and extracts files from archives.

   Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003,
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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     being "A GNU Manual," and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a)
     below.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
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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: Genfile443409
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Node: Status Mode448799
Node: Exec Mode450598
Node: Free Software Needs Free Documentation452834
Node: Copying This Manual457805
Node: GNU Free Documentation License458087
Node: Index of Command Line Options480494
Node: Index503058

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