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authorjan.nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sourceforge.net>2022-10-26 09:36:30 (GMT)
committerjan.nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sourceforge.net>2022-10-26 09:36:30 (GMT)
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TIP #646: Change -eofchar handling (Tcl 8.7 part)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/chan.n7
-rw-r--r--doc/fconfigure.n2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/chan.n b/doc/chan.n
index 9589f98..bf6c85c 100644
--- a/doc/chan.n
+++ b/doc/chan.n
@@ -144,15 +144,14 @@ interface with the operating system,
.TP
\fB\-eofchar\fR \fIchar\fR
.TP
-\fB\-eofchar\fR \fB{\fIinChar outChar\fB}\fR
+\fB\-eofchar\fR \fB{\fIchar outChar\fB}\fR
.
\fIchar\fR signals the end of the data when it is encountered in the input.
-For output, the character is added when the channel is closed. If \fIchar\fR
+For output, \fIoutChar\fR is added when the channel is closed. If \fIchar\fR
is the empty string, there is no special character that marks the end of the
data. For read-write channels, one end-of-file character for input and another
for output may be given. When only one end-of-file character is given it is
-applied to both input and output. For a read-write channel two values are
-returned even if they are are identical.
+applied to input only.
The default value is the empty string, except that under Windows the default
value for reading is Control-z (\ex1A). The acceptable range is \ex01 -
diff --git a/doc/fconfigure.n b/doc/fconfigure.n
index 2926777..4bb9fc6 100644
--- a/doc/fconfigure.n
+++ b/doc/fconfigure.n
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ system, as returned by \fBencoding system\fR.
.TP
\fB\-eofchar\fR \fIchar\fR
.TP
-\fB\-eofchar\fR \fB{\fIinChar outChar\fB}\fR
+\fB\-eofchar\fR \fB{\fIchar outChar\fB}\fR
.
This option supports DOS file systems that use Control-z (\ex1A) as an
end of file marker. If \fIchar\fR is not an empty string, then this