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authorjan.nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sourceforge.net>2016-06-01 12:20:55 (GMT)
committerjan.nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sourceforge.net>2016-06-01 12:20:55 (GMT)
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diff --git a/doc/tcltest.n b/doc/tcltest.n
index cedc763..05c1922 100644
--- a/doc/tcltest.n
+++ b/doc/tcltest.n
@@ -872,8 +872,8 @@ harness are doing.
.
Sets the type of output verbosity desired to \fIlevel\fR,
a list of zero or more of the elements \fBbody\fR, \fBpass\fR,
-\fBskip\fR, \fBstart\fR, \fBerror\fR and \fBline\fR. Default value
-is
+\fBskip\fR, \fBstart\fR, \fBerror\fR, \fBline\fR, \fBmsec\fR and \fBusec\fR.
+Default value is
.QW "\fBbody error\fR" .
Levels are defined as:
.RS
@@ -890,6 +890,16 @@ Print errorInfo and errorCode, if they exist, when a test return code
does not match its expected return code
.IP "line (\fBl\fR)"
Print source file line information of failed tests
+.IP "msec (\fBm\fR)"
+Print each test's execution time in milliseconds
+.IP "usec (\fBu\fR)"
+Print each test's execution time in microseconds
+.PP
+Note that the \fBmsec\fR and \fBusec\fR verbosity levels are provided as
+indicative measures only. They do not tackle the problem of repeatibility which
+should be considered in performance tests or benchmarks. To use these verbosity
+levels to thoroughly track performance degradations, consider wrapping your
+test bodies with \fBtime\fR commands.
.PP
The single letter abbreviations noted above are also recognized
so that
diff --git a/doc/tell.n b/doc/tell.n
index 1da240d..a56e9e3 100644
--- a/doc/tell.n
+++ b/doc/tell.n
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ tell \- Return current access position for an open channel
.BE
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
-Returns an integer string giving the current access position in
+Returns an integer 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.