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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. '\" -'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: seek.n,v 1.4 2000/09/07 14:27:51 poenitz Exp $ +'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: seek.n,v 1.5 2001/09/14 19:20:40 andreas_kupries Exp $ '\" .so man.macros .TH seek n 8.1 Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands" @@ -20,8 +20,14 @@ seek \- Change the access position for an open channel .SH DESCRIPTION .PP Changes the current access position for \fIchannelId\fR. -\fIChannelId\fR must be a channel identifier such as returned from a -previous invocation of \fBopen\fR or \fBsocket\fR. +.PP +.VS +\fIChannelId\fR must be an identifier for an open channel such as a +Tcl standard channel (\fBstdin\fR, \fBstdout\fR, or \fBstderr\fR), +the return value from an invocation of \fBopen\fR or \fBsocket\fR, or +the result of a channel creation command provided by a Tcl extension. +.VE +.PP The \fIoffset\fR and \fIorigin\fR arguments specify the position at which the next read or write will occur for \fIchannelId\fR. \fIOffset\fR must be an integer (which may be @@ -58,7 +64,7 @@ not characters, unlike \fBread\fR. .VE 8.1 .SH "SEE ALSO" -file(n), open(n), close(n), gets(n), tell(n) +file(n), open(n), close(n), gets(n), tell(n), Tcl_StandardChannels(3) .SH KEYWORDS access position, file, seek |