This is tar.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.13 from tar.texi.

This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.15.92, 26 June 2006), 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.
END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
INFO-DIR-SECTION Individual utilities
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* tar: (tar)tar invocation.                     Invoking GNU `tar'.
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Node: Authors18648
Node: Reports20464
Node: Tutorial20824
Node: assumptions21637
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Node: Free Software Needs Free Documentation449326
Node: Copying This Manual454296
Node: GNU Free Documentation License454578
Node: Index of Command Line Options476965
Node: Index499096

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