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   1 This is tar.info, produced by makeinfo version 5.9.93 from tar.texi.
   2
   3 This manual is for GNU 'tar' (version 1.29, 14 April 2016), which
   4 creates and extracts files from archives.
   5
   6    Copyright (C) 1992, 1994-1997, 1999-2001, 2003-2016 Free Software
   7 Foundation, Inc.
   8
   9      Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
  10      document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
  11      Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software
  12      Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being "GNU General Public
  13      License", with the Front-Cover Texts being "A GNU Manual", and with
  14      the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below.  A copy of the license is
  15      included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
  16
  17      (a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: "You have the freedom to copy and
  18      modify this GNU manual."
  19 INFO-DIR-SECTION Archiving
  20 START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
  21 * Tar: (tar).                   Making tape (or disk) archives.
  22 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
  23
  24 INFO-DIR-SECTION Individual utilities
  25 START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
  26 * tar: (tar)tar invocation.                     Invoking GNU 'tar'.
  27 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
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  40 Node: What tar Does\7f15257
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