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

   This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.16, 16 October 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: assumptions21635
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Node: Blocking340594
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Node: Status Mode443187
Node: Exec Mode444986
Node: Free Software Needs Free Documentation447222
Node: Copying This Manual452193
Node: GNU Free Documentation License452475
Node: Index of Command Line Options474882
Node: Index496716

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