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

   This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.16.1, 7 December 2006),
which creates and extracts files from archives.

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

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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: Reports20468
Node: Tutorial20828
Node: assumptions21641
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Node: Standard399805
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Node: Dumpdir435240
Node: Genfile438462
Node: Generate Mode439555
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Node: Exec Mode445651
Node: Free Software Needs Free Documentation447887
Node: Copying This Manual452858
Node: GNU Free Documentation License453140
Node: Index of Command Line Options475547
Node: Index497527

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