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

   This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.23, 9 March 2010), which
creates and extracts files from archives.

   Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003,
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INFO-DIR-SECTION Archiving
START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
* 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: Tutorial20965
Node: assumptions21778
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Node: Free Software Needs Free Documentation479468
Node: Copying This Manual484439
Node: GNU Free Documentation License484721
Node: Index of Command Line Options507128
Node: Index532539

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