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(Create Tags Table): Add text about the dangers of making symbolic links to tags files. (Clarified by RMS.)

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move an entire directory tree containing both the tags file and the
source files, and the tags file will still refer correctly to the source
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}.

  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
will still refer to the same files even if you move it, as long as the
source files remain in the same place.  Absolute file names start with

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move an entire directory tree containing both the tags file and the
source files, and the tags file will still refer correctly to the source
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}.
 
  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
will still refer to the same files even if you move it, as long as the
source files remain in the same place.  Absolute file names start with