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

   This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.20, 14 April 2008), 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: Definitions13471
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Node: Reports20573
Node: Tutorial20933
Node: assumptions21746
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Node: basic tar options24664
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Node: Tar Internals418406
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Node: Free Software Needs Free Documentation469185
Node: Copying This Manual474156
Node: GNU Free Documentation License474438
Node: Index of Command Line Options496845
Node: Index520650

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