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* tar: (tar).			Making tape (or disk) archives.
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   This file documents GNU `tar', a utility used to store, backup, and
transport files.

   Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.

   Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
preserved on all copies.

   Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of
this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that
the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
permission notice identical to this one.

   Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified
versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a
translation approved by the Foundation.

   This file documents GNU `tar', which is a utility used to store,
backup, and transport files.  `tar' is a tape (or disk) archiver.  This
manual documents the release 1.12.


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Node: What tar Does12251
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Node: posix compliance15735
Node: Authors16698
Node: Reports18128
Node: Tutorial18388
Node: assumptions19200
Node: stylistic conventions21693
Node: basic tar options22313
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Node: Two Frequent Options26593
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Node: appending files106126
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Node: update110293
Node: how to update111295
Node: concatenate113080
Node: delete116410
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Node: Backup Levels154228
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