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(Create Tags Table): Clean up previous change.

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2007-05-06 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
* maintaining.texi (Create Tags Table): Clean up previous change.
2007-05-05 Francesco Potort,Al(B <pot@gnu.org>
* maintaining.texi (Create Tags Table): Add text about the dangers of

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files. If the tags file is in @file{/dev}, however, the file names are
made relative to the current working directory. This is useful, for
example, when writing the tags to @file{/dev/stdout}.
Notice that, in the usual case of using relative file names, you
should not use a symbolic link pointing to a tags file in a different
directory, because this would generally render the file names invalid.
When using a a relative file name, it should not be a symbolic link
pointing to a tags file in a different directory, because this would
generally render the file names invalid.
If you specify absolute file names as arguments to @code{etags}, then
the tags file will contain absolute file names. This way, the tags file