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GNU `tar' Authors
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   GNU `tar' was originally written by John Gilmore, and modified by
many people.  The GNU enhancements were written by Jay Fenlason, then
Joy Kendall, and the whole package has been further maintained by
Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG, and finally Franc,ois Pinard, with the help of
numerous and kind users.

   We wish to stress that `tar' is a collective work, and owes much to
all those people who reported problems, offered solutions and other
insights, or shared their thoughts and suggestions.  An impressive, yet
partial list of those contributors can be found in the `THANKS' file
from the GNU `tar' distribution.

   Jay Fenlason put together a draft of a GNU `tar' manual, borrowing
notes from the original man page from John Gilmore.  This was withdrawn
in version 1.11.  Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG and Amy Gorin worked on a
tutorial and manual for GNU `tar'.  Franc,ois Pinard put version 1.11.8
of the manual together by taking information from all these sources and
merging them.  Melissa Weisshaus finally edited and redesigned the book
to create version 1.12.

   For version 1.12, Daniel Hagerty contributed a great deal of
technical consulting.  In particular, he is the primary author of Note:
Backups.