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

   This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.22, 5 March 2009), which
creates and extracts files from archives.

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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: Authors18770
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Node: Tutorial20943
Node: assumptions21756
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Node: Free Software Needs Free Documentation473957
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Node: GNU Free Documentation License479210
Node: Index of Command Line Options501617
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