This is tar.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.8 from tar.texi.
This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.17, 8 June 2007), 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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Node: Free Software Needs Free Documentation450328
Node: Copying This Manual455299
Node: GNU Free Documentation License455581
Node: Index of Command Line Options477988
Node: Index500552
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