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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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'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
'\"
-'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: tell.n,v 1.7 2004/10/27 14:43:54 dkf Exp $
+'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: tell.n,v 1.8 2005/04/06 20:55:24 dkf Exp $
'\"
.so man.macros
.TH tell n 8.1 Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands"
@@ -19,21 +19,17 @@ tell \- Return current access position for an open channel
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
-.VS 8.1
Returns an integer string giving the current access position in
\fIchannelId\fR. This value returned is a byte offset that can be passed to
\fBseek\fR in order to set the channel to a particular position. Note
that this value is in terms of bytes, not characters like \fBread\fR.
-.VE 8.1
The value returned is -1 for channels that do not support
seeking.
.PP
-.VS
\fIChannelId\fR must be an identifier for an open channel such as a
Tcl standard channel (\fBstdin\fR, \fBstdout\fR, or \fBstderr\fR),
the return value from an invocation of \fBopen\fR or \fBsocket\fR, or
the result of a channel creation command provided by a Tcl extension.
-.VE
.SH EXAMPLE
Read a line from a file channel only if it starts with \fBfoobar\fR:
.CS