1This is tar.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.13 from tar.texi. 2 3This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.15.92, 26 June 2006), which 4creates and extracts files from archives. 5 6 Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 72004, 2005, 2006 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 1.1 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 are free to copy and modify 18 this GNU Manual. Buying copies from GNU Press supports the FSF in 19 developing GNU and promoting software freedom." 20 21INFO-DIR-SECTION Archiving 22START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY 23* Tar: (tar). Making tape (or disk) archives. 24END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY 25INFO-DIR-SECTION Individual utilities 26START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY 27* tar: (tar)tar invocation. 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