Changes from TIP#17 "Redo Tcl's filesystem"

The following files were impacted.

   * doc/Access.3:
   * doc/FileSystem.3:
   * doc/OpenFileChnl.3:
   * doc/file.n:
   * doc/glob.n:
   * generic/tcl.decls:
   * generic/tcl.h:
   * generic/tclCmdAH.c:
   * generic/tclCmdIL.c:
   * generic/tclCmdMZ.c:
   * generic/tclDate.c:
   * generic/tclDecls.h:
   * generic/tclEncoding.c:
   * generic/tclFCmd.c:
   * generic/tclFileName.c:
   * generic/tclGetDate.y:
   * generic/tclIO.c:
   * generic/tclIOCmd.c:
   * generic/tclIOUtil.c:
   * generic/tclInt.decls:
   * generic/tclInt.h:
   * generic/tclIntDecls.h:
   * generic/tclLoad.c:
   * generic/tclStubInit.c:
   * generic/tclTest.c:
   * generic/tclUtil.c:
   * library/init.tcl:
   * mac/tclMacFCmd.c:
   * mac/tclMacFile.c:
   * mac/tclMacInit.c:
   * mac/tclMacPort.h:
   * mac/tclMacResource.c:
   * mac/tclMacTime.c:
   * tests/cmdAH.test:
   * tests/event.test:
   * tests/fCmd.test:
   * tests/fileName.test:
   * tests/io.test:
   * tests/ioCmd.test:
   * tests/proc-old.test:
   * tests/registry.test:
   * tests/unixFCmd.test:
   * tests/winDde.test:
   * tests/winFCmd.test:
   * unix/mkLinks:
   * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c:
   * unix/tclUnixFile.c:
   * unix/tclUnixInit.c:
   * unix/tclUnixPipe.c:
   * win/tclWinFCmd.c:
   * win/tclWinFile.c:
   * win/tclWinInit.c:
   * win/tclWinPipe.c

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/file.n b/doc/file.n
index 7a2f9c6..681207f 100644
--- a/doc/file.n
+++ b/doc/file.n
@@ -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 1.6 2000/09/07 14:27:47 poenitz Exp $
+'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: file.n,v 1.7 2001/07/31 19:12:06 vincentdarley Exp $
 '\" 
 .so man.macros
 .TH file n 8.3 Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands"
@@ -216,6 +216,16 @@ Returns the platform-specific name of the file. This is useful if the
 filename is needed to pass to a platform-specific call, such as exec
 under Windows or AppleScript on the Macintosh.
 .TP
+\fBfile normalize \fIname\fR
+.
+Returns a unique normalised path representation for the file, whose string
+value can be used as a unique identifier for the it.  A normalized path is
+one which has all '../', './' removed.  Also it is one which is in the
+'standard' format for the native platform.  On MacOS, Unix, this means the
+path must be free of symbolic links/aliases, and on Windows it means we want
+the long form, with the long form's case-dependence (which gives us a
+unique, case-dependent path).
+.TP
 \fBfile owned \fIname\fR 
 .
 Returns \fB1\fR if file \fIname\fR is owned by the current user, \fB0\fR
@@ -267,6 +277,14 @@ 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?
+.
+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,
+the filesystem responsible for that path is asked to return its
+separator character.  If no file system accepts \fIname\fR, an error
+is generated.
+.TP
 \fBfile size \fIname\fR
 .
 Returns a decimal string giving the size of file \fIname\fR in bytes.  If
@@ -303,6 +321,19 @@ values.  The \fBtype\fR element gives the type of the file in the same
 form returned by the command \fBfile type\fR.  This command returns an
 empty string.
 .TP
+\fBfile system \fIname\fR
+.
+Returns a list of two elements, the first of which is the name of the
+filesystem to use for the file, and the second the type of the file
+within that filesystem.  If a filesystem only supports one type of
+file, the second element may be null.  For example the native files
+have a first element 'native', and a second element which is a
+platform-specific type name for the file (e.g. 'networked'), or
+possibly the empty string.  A generic virtual file system might return
+the list 'vfs ftp' to represent a file on a remote ftp site mounted as
+a virtual filesystem through an extension called 'vfs'.  If the file
+does not belong to any filesystem, an error is generated.
+.TP
 \fBfile tail \fIname\fR
 .
 Returns all of the characters in \fIname\fR after the last directory