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authorjan.nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sourceforge.net>2024-08-23 19:41:01 (GMT)
committerjan.nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sourceforge.net>2024-08-23 19:41:01 (GMT)
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Update "info loaded" documentation. Add "info loaded" change to release notes
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@@ -84,13 +84,11 @@ If \fIfileName\fR is an empty string, then \fIprefix\fR must
be specified.
.PP
If \fIprefix\fR is omitted or specified as an empty string,
-Tcl tries to guess the prefix. This may be done differently on
-different platforms. The default guess, which is used on most
-UNIX platforms, is to take the last element of
+Tcl tries to guess the prefix by taking the last element of
\fIfileName\fR, strip off the first three characters if they
-are \fBlib\fR, then strip off the next three characters if they
-are \fBtcl\fR, and use any following alphabetic and
-underline characters, converted to titlecase as the prefix.
+are \fBlib\fR, then strip off the next three or four characters if
+they are \fBtcl\fR or \fBtcl8\fR, and use any following wordchars
+but not digits, converted to titlecase as the prefix.
For example, the command \fBload libxyz4.2.so\fR uses the prefix
\fBXyz\fR and the command \fBload bin/last.so {}\fR uses the
prefix \fBLast\fR.