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'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
'\"
-'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: OpenFileChnl.3,v 1.10 2001/07/31 19:12:05 vincentdarley Exp $
+'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: OpenFileChnl.3,v 1.11 2001/09/10 21:49:37 andreas_kupries Exp $
.so man.macros
.TH Tcl_OpenFileChannel 3 8.3 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures"
.BS
@@ -337,6 +337,13 @@ be registered in a Tcl interpreter and it will only be closed when the
matching number of calls to \fBTcl_UnregisterChannel\fR have been made.
This allows code executing outside of any interpreter to safely hold a
reference to a channel that is also registered in a Tcl interpreter.
+.PP
+This procedure interacts with the code managing the standard
+channels. If no standard channels were initialized before the first
+call to \fBTcl_RegisterChannel\fR they will get initialized by that
+call. See \fBTcl_StandardChannel\fR for a general treatise about
+standard channels and the behaviour of the Tcl library with regard to
+them.
.SH TCL_UNREGISTERCHANNEL
.PP