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@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2003-02-13 Kevin Kenny <kennykb@users.sourceforge.net> + + * doc/tclsh.1: Added language to describe the handling of the + end-of-file character \u001a embedded in a script file. + [Bug 685485] + 2003-02-10 Vince Darley <vincentdarley@users.sourceforge.net> * tests/fileName.test: diff --git a/doc/tclsh.1 b/doc/tclsh.1 index fe55148..bda9e5e 100644 --- a/doc/tclsh.1 +++ b/doc/tclsh.1 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. '\" -'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: tclsh.1,v 1.7 2002/07/23 18:17:12 jenglish Exp $ +'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: tclsh.1,v 1.8 2003/02/13 22:03:34 kennykb Exp $ '\" .so man.macros .TH tclsh 1 "" Tcl "Tcl Applications" @@ -39,8 +39,18 @@ are made available to the script as variables (see below). Instead of reading commands from standard input \fBtclsh\fR will read Tcl commands from the named file; \fBtclsh\fR will exit when it reaches the end of the file. -There is no automatic evaluation of \fB.tclshrc\fR in this -case, but the script file can always \fBsource\fR it if desired. +.VS 8.4 +The end of the file may be marked either by the physical end of +the medium, or by the character, '\\032' ('\\u001a', control-Z). +If this character is present in the file, the \fBtclsh\fR application +will read text up to but not including the character. An application +that requires this character in the file may safely encode it as +``\\032'', ``\\x1a'', or ``\\u001a''; or may generate it by use of commands +such as \fBformat\fR or \fBbinary\fR. +.VE +There is no automatic evaluation of \fB.tclshrc\fR when the name +of a script file is presented on the \fBtclsh\fR command +line, but the script file can always \fBsource\fR it if desired. .PP If you create a Tcl script in a file whose first line is .CS |