-.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 2001 Free Software Foundation
+.\" Copyright (C) 1992, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
+.\" 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\" See section COPYING for conditions for redistribution
.TH etags 1 "23nov2001" "GNU Tools" "GNU Tools"
.de BP
.BR vi ( 1 )\c
\&. Both forms of the program understand
the syntax of C, Objective C, C++, Java, Fortran, Ada, Cobol, Erlang, HTML,
-LaTeX, Emacs Lisp/Common Lisp, makefiles, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Postscript,
+LaTeX, Emacs Lisp/Common Lisp, Lua, makefile, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Postscript,
Python, Prolog, Scheme and
most assembler\-like syntaxes.
Both forms read the files specified on the command line, and write a tag
\fBctags\fP) in the current working directory.
Files specified with relative file names will be recorded in the tag
table with file names relative to the directory where the tag table
-resides. Files specified with absolute file names will be recorded
+resides. If the tag table is in /dev, however, the file names are made
+relative to the working directory. Files specified with absolute file
+names will be recorded
with absolute file names. Files generated from a source file\-\-like
a C file generated from a source Cweb file\-\-will be recorded with
the name of the source file.
Copyright
.if t \(co
.if n (c)
-1999, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.PP
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