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

This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.28, 22 July 2014), which
creates and extracts files from archives.

   Copyright (C) 1992, 1994-1997, 1999-2001, 2003-2013 Free Software
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     with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below.  A copy of the license
     is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation
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     (a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: "You have the freedom to copy
     and modify this GNU manual."

INFO-DIR-SECTION Archiving
START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
* Tar: (tar).                   Making tape (or disk) archives.
END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY

INFO-DIR-SECTION Individual utilities
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* tar: (tar)tar invocation.                     Invoking GNU `tar'.
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