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

   This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.21, 30 October 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
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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: Authors18764
Node: Reports20577
Node: Tutorial20937
Node: assumptions21750
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Node: Sparse Formats448102
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Node: Genfile464363
Node: Generate Mode465456
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Node: Free Software Needs Free Documentation473788
Node: Copying This Manual478759
Node: GNU Free Documentation License479041
Node: Index of Command Line Options501448
Node: Index525691

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