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

   This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.17, 8 June 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: Authors18653
Node: Reports20466
Node: Tutorial20826
Node: assumptions21639
Node: stylistic conventions24114
Node: basic tar options24557
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Node: Tar Internals401913
Node: Standard402248
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Node: Dumpdir437681
Node: Genfile440903
Node: Generate Mode441996
Node: Status Mode446293
Node: Exec Mode448092
Node: Free Software Needs Free Documentation450328
Node: Copying This Manual455299
Node: GNU Free Documentation License455581
Node: Index of Command Line Options477988
Node: Index500552

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