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authordkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>2005-04-06 20:55:16 (GMT)
committerdkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>2005-04-06 20:55:16 (GMT)
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Purge old and inaccurate .VS/.VE macros.
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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: tclvars.n,v 1.20 2004/11/20 00:17:32 dgp Exp $
+'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: tclvars.n,v 1.21 2005/04/06 20:55:24 dkf Exp $
'\"
.so man.macros
.TH tclvars n 8.0 Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands"
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ If the entire \fBenv\fR array is unset then Tcl will stop
monitoring \fBenv\fR accesses and will not update environment
variables.
.RS
-.VS 8.0
Under Windows, the environment variables PATH and COMSPEC in any
capitalization are converted automatically to upper case. For instance, the
PATH variable could be exported by the operating system as ``path'',
@@ -47,7 +46,6 @@ Tcl are left unmodified. Setting an env array variable to blank is the
same as unsetting it as this is the behavior of the underlying Windows OS.
It should be noted that relying on an existing and empty environment variable
won't work on windows and is discouraged for cross-platform usage.
-.VE
.RE
.TP
\fBerrorCode\fR
@@ -163,7 +161,6 @@ hold a string giving the current patch level for Tcl, such as
\fB7.4b4\fR for the fourth beta release of Tcl 7.4.
The value of this variable is returned by the \fBinfo patchlevel\fR
command.
-.VS 8.0 br
.TP
\fBtcl_pkgPath\fR
This variable holds a list of directories indicating where packages are
@@ -181,7 +178,6 @@ value is added to \fBauto_path\fR at startup; changes to \fBtcl_pkgPath\fR
are not reflected in \fBauto_path\fR. If you want Tcl to search additional
directories for packages you should add the names of those directories to
\fBauto_path\fR, not \fBtcl_pkgPath\fR.
-.VE
.TP
\fBtcl_platform\fR
This is an associative array whose elements contain information about
@@ -193,12 +189,10 @@ retrieve any relevant information. In addition, extensions
and applications may add additional values to the array. The
predefined elements are:
.RS
-.VS
.TP
\fBbyteOrder\fR
The native byte order of this machine: either \fBlittleEndian\fR or
\fBbigEndian\fR.
-.VE
.TP
\fBdebug\fR
If this variable exists, then the interpreter was compiled with and linked
@@ -241,14 +235,11 @@ This comes from the USER or LOGNAME environment variable on Unix,
and the value from GetUserName on Windows.
.TP
\fBwordSize\fR
-.VS 8.4
This gives the size of the native-machine word in bytes (strictly, it
is same as the result of evaluating \fIsizeof(long)\fR in C.)
-.VE 8.4
.RE
.TP
\fBtcl_precision\fR
-.VS
This variable controls the number of digits to generate
when converting floating-point values to strings. It defaults
to 12.
@@ -264,7 +255,6 @@ changing it in one interpreter will affect all other interpreters as
well. However, safe interpreters are not allowed to modify the
variable.
.RE
-.VE
.TP
\fBtcl_rcFileName\fR
This variable is used during initialization to indicate the name of a