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authorjenglish <jenglish@flightlab.com>2002-06-20 00:50:48 (GMT)
committerjenglish <jenglish@flightlab.com>2002-06-20 00:50:48 (GMT)
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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: file.n,v 1.18 2002/05/08 23:48:23 davygrvy Exp $
+'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: file.n,v 1.19 2002/06/20 00:50:48 jenglish Exp $
'\"
.so man.macros
.TH file n 8.3 Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands"
@@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ doesn't exist or its access time cannot be queried or set then an error is
generated. On Windows, FAT file systems do not support access time.
.TP
\fBfile attributes \fIname\fR
-.br
+.TP
\fBfile attributes \fIname\fR ?\fBoption\fR?
-.br
+.TP
\fBfile attributes \fIname\fR ?\fBoption value option value...\fR?
.RS
This subcommand returns or sets platform specific values associated
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ is determined using the same rules as for \fBstring match\fR.
.VE
.TP
\fBfile copy \fR?\fB\-force\fR? ?\fB\-\|\-\fR? \fIsource\fR \fItarget\fR
-.br
+.TP
\fBfile copy \fR?\fB\-force\fR? ?\fB\-\|\-\fR? \fIsource\fR ?\fIsource\fR ...? \fItargetDir\fR
.RS
The first form makes a copy of the file or directory \fIsource\fR under
@@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ under Windows or AppleScript on the Macintosh.
.TP
\fBfile normalize \fIname\fR
.
+.RS
Returns a unique normalised path representation for the file-system
object (file, directory, link, etc), whose string value can be used as
a unique identifier for it. A normalized path is one which has all '../', './'
@@ -245,6 +246,7 @@ operating systems (95/98) and new Windows operating systems
(NT/2000/XP). This is necessary because the APIs
to produce a long normalized path in older operating systems are
unfortunately very slow.
+.RE
.TP
\fBfile owned \fIname\fR
.
@@ -299,7 +301,7 @@ Returns all of the characters in \fIname\fR up to but not including the
last ``.'' character in the last component of name. If the last
component of \fIname\fR doesn't contain a dot, then returns \fIname\fR.
.TP
-\fBfile separator ?\fIname\fR?
+\fBfile separator\fR ?\fIname\fR?
.
If no argument is given, returns the character which is used to separate
path segments for native files on this platform. If a path is given,
@@ -322,7 +324,7 @@ unless they are needed ensure that an element is unambiguously relative.
For example, under Unix
.RS
.CS
-\fBfile split /foo/~bar/baz\fR
+file split /foo/~bar/baz
.CE
returns \fB/\0\0foo\0\0./~bar\0\0baz\fR to ensure that later commands
that use the third component do not attempt to perform tilde