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authordkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>2004-12-09 09:19:46 (GMT)
committerdkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>2004-12-09 09:19:46 (GMT)
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Minor doc fixes
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+2004-12-09 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+ * doc/Async.3: Reword for better grammar, better nroff and get the
+ flag name right. (Reported by David Welton.)
+
2004-12-07 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
* tests/unixInit.test (2.1-4): Added constraints so that when a
diff --git a/doc/Async.3 b/doc/Async.3
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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
'\"
-'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: Async.3,v 1.7 2004/11/20 00:17:31 dgp Exp $
+'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: Async.3,v 1.8 2004/12/09 09:19:50 dkf Exp $
'\"
.so man.macros
.TH Tcl_AsyncCreate 3 7.0 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures"
@@ -62,11 +62,11 @@ to a clean state, such as after the current Tcl command completes.
.PP
\fBTcl_AsyncCreate\fR, \fBTcl_AsyncDelete\fR, and \fBTcl_AsyncReady\fR
are thread sensitive. They access and/or set a thread-specific data
-structure in the event of an --enable-thread built core. The token
-created by Tcl_AsyncCreate contains the needed thread information it
-was called from so that calling Tcl_AsyncMark(token) will only yield
-the origin thread into the AsyncProc.
-.PP
+structure in the event of a core built with \fI\-\-enable\-threads\fR. The token
+created by \fBTcl_AsyncCreate\fR contains the needed thread information it
+was called from so that calling \fBTcl_AsyncMark\fR(\fItoken\fR) will only yield
+the origin thread into the asynchronous handler.
+.PP
\fBTcl_AsyncCreate\fR creates an asynchronous handler and returns
a token for it.
The asynchronous handler must be created before