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authordkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>2014-05-07 22:22:02 (GMT)
committerdkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>2014-05-07 22:22:02 (GMT)
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Corrected description of where tcl_platform(user) comes from on Unix.
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@@ -347,8 +347,8 @@ was compiled with threads enabled.
.
This identifies the
current user based on the login information available on the platform.
-This comes from the USER or LOGNAME environment variable on Unix,
-and the value from GetUserName on Windows.
+This value comes from the getuid() and getpwuid() system calls on Unix,
+and the value from the GetUserName() system call on Windows.
.TP
\fBwordSize\fR
.