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diff --git a/doc/filename.n b/doc/filename.n
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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
 '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
 '\" 
-'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: filename.n,v 1.16 2007/10/25 14:07:32 dkf Exp $
+'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: filename.n,v 1.17 2007/10/26 20:11:52 dgp Exp $
 '\" 
 .so man.macros
 .TH filename n 7.5 Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands"
@@ -142,36 +142,29 @@ will be correctly substituted using the \fB$HOME\fR environment
 variable, just like for Unix.
 .SH "PORTABILITY ISSUES"
 .PP
-Not all file systems are case sensitive, so scripts should avoid code that
-depends on the case of characters in a file name. In addition, the character
-sets allowed on different devices may differ, so scripts should choose file
-names that do not contain special characters like: \fB<>:?"/\e|\fR.
-.\"" Reset emacs highlighting
-The safest approach is to use names consisting of alphanumeric characters
-only. Care should be taken with filenames which contain spaces (common on
-Windows systems) and filenames where the backslash is the directory separator
-(Windows native path names). Also Windows 3.1 only supports file names with a
-root of no more than 8 characters and an extension of no more than 3
-characters.
+Not all file systems are case sensitive, so scripts should avoid code
+that depends on the case of characters in a file name.  In addition,
+the character sets allowed on different devices may differ, so scripts
+should choose file names that do not contain special characters like:
+\fB<>:?"/\e|\fR.  The safest approach is to use names consisting of
+alphanumeric characters only.  Care should be taken with filenames
+which contain spaces (common on Windows systems) and
+filenames where the backslash is the directory separator (Windows
+native path names).  Also Windows 3.1 only supports file
+names with a root of no more than 8 characters and an extension of no
+more than 3 characters.
 .PP
-On Windows platforms there are file and path length restrictions. Complete
-paths or filenames longer than about 260 characters will lead to errors in
-most file operations.
+On Windows platforms there are file and path length restrictions. 
+Complete paths or filenames longer than about 260 characters will lead
+to errors in most file operations.
 .PP
-Another Windows peculiarity is that any number of trailing dots
-.QW "."
-in filenames are totally ignored, so, for example, attempts to create a file
-or directory with a name
-.QW "foo."
-will result in the creation of a file or directory with name
-.QW "foo" .
-This fact is reflected in the results of
-.QW \fBfile normalize\fR .
-Furthermore, a file name consisting only of dots
-.QW "........."
-or dots with trailing characters
-.QW ".....abc"
-is illegal.
+Another Windows peculiarity is that any number of trailing dots '.'  in
+filenames are totally ignored, so, for example, attempts to create a
+file or directory with a name "foo." will result in the creation of a
+file/directory with name "foo".  This fact is reflected in the
+results of 'file normalize'.  Furthermore, a file name consisting only
+of dots '.........' or dots with trailing characters '.....abc' is
+illegal.
 .SH KEYWORDS
 current directory, absolute file name, relative file name,
 volume-relative file name, portability