* doc/chan.n: "Fix" the limitation on channel -eofchar

        * doc/fconfigure.n:     values to single byte characters by documenting
        * generic/tclIO.c:      it and making it fail loudly.  Thanks to
        * tests/chan.test:      Stuart Cassoff for contributing the fix.
        [Bug 800753]

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/chan.n b/doc/chan.n
index d5ca932..633e859 100644
--- a/doc/chan.n
+++ b/doc/chan.n
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
 '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
 '\"
-'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: chan.n,v 1.15 2007/11/01 13:43:14 dkf Exp $
+'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: chan.n,v 1.16 2007/11/27 19:48:07 dgp Exp $
 .so man.macros
 .TH chan n 8.5 Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands"
 .BS
@@ -173,6 +173,9 @@ returned.  The default value for \fB\-eofchar\fR is the empty string
 in all cases except for files under Windows.  In that case the
 \fB\-eofchar\fR is Control-z (\ex1a) for reading and the empty string
 for writing.
+The acceptable range for \fB\-eofchar\fR values is \ex01 - \ex7f;
+attempting to set \fB\-eofchar\fR to a value outside of this range will
+generate an error.
 .TP
 \fB\-translation\fR \fImode\fR
 .TP