diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/filename.n')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/filename.n | 26 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/filename.n b/doc/filename.n index 8f70f1f..2c2c68d 100644 --- a/doc/filename.n +++ b/doc/filename.n @@ -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 1.17 2007/10/26 20:11:52 dgp Exp $ +'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: filename.n,v 1.18 2007/10/29 01:42:18 dkf Exp $ '\" .so man.macros .TH filename n 7.5 Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands" @@ -146,7 +146,9 @@ 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 +\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 @@ -158,13 +160,19 @@ 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 '.' 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. +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/directory with name +.QW foo . +This fact is reflected in the results of \fBfile normalize\fR. +Furthermore, a file name consisting only of dots +.QW ......... +or dots with trailing characters +.QW .....abc +is illegal. .SH KEYWORDS current directory, absolute file name, relative file name, volume-relative file name, portability |