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-rw-r--r--doc/load.n10
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/changes.md b/changes.md
index 2adbd1e..703e679 100644
--- a/changes.md
+++ b/changes.md
@@ -45,9 +45,10 @@ writing Tcl scripts.
- `readFile`, `writeFile`, `foreachLine`
## New command options
- - `regsub ... -command ...`
- - `lsearch ... -stride ...`
- `clock scan ... -validate ...`
+ - `info loaded ... ?prefix?`
+ - `lsearch ... -stride ...`
+ - `regsub ... -command ...`
- `socket ... -nodelay ... -keepalive ...`
- `vwait` controlled by several new options
diff --git a/doc/load.n b/doc/load.n
index 40565a1..176f5a3 100644
--- a/doc/load.n
+++ b/doc/load.n
@@ -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.