This is tar.info, produced by makeinfo version 5.2 from tar.texi.

This manual is for GNU 'tar' (version 1.30, 16 December 2017), which
creates and extracts files from archives.

   Copyright (C) 1992, 1994-1997, 1999-2001, 2003-2017 Free Software
Foundation, Inc.

     Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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     the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below.  A copy of the license is
     included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

     (a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: "You have the freedom to copy and
     modify this GNU manual."
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: Free Software Needs Free Documentation537944
Node: GNU Free Documentation License542925
Node: Index of Command Line Options568133
Node: Index596359

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