This is tar.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.8.90 from tar.texi.

   This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.19, 27 September 2007),
which creates and extracts files from archives.

   Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003,
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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     being "A GNU Manual," and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a)
     below.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
     "GNU Free Documentation License".

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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: Exec Mode453868
Node: Free Software Needs Free Documentation456104
Node: Copying This Manual461075
Node: GNU Free Documentation License461357
Node: Index of Command Line Options483764
Node: Index506474

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