This is tar.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.13 from tar.texi.

This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.24, 24 October 2010), 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: assumptions21902
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