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   1 This is tar.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.13 from tar.texi.
   2
   3 This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.26, 12 March 2011), which
   4 creates and extracts files from archives.
   5
   6    Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003,
   7 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software 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 no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts
  13      being "A GNU Manual", and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a)
  14      below.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
  15      "GNU Free Documentation License".
  16
  17      (a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: "You have the freedom to copy
  18      and modify this GNU manual.  Buying copies from the FSF supports
  19      it in developing GNU and promoting software freedom."
  20
  21 INFO-DIR-SECTION Archiving
  22 START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
  23 * Tar: (tar).                   Making tape (or disk) archives.
  24 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
  25
  26 INFO-DIR-SECTION Individual utilities
  27 START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
  28 * tar: (tar)tar invocation.                     Invoking GNU `tar'.
  29 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
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