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Diffstat (limited to 'doc/load.n')
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -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. |