This is tar.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.13 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: assumptions21750
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Node: Free Software Needs Free Documentation473947
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Node: GNU Free Documentation License479200
Node: Index of Command Line Options501607
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