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diff --git a/doc/filename.n b/doc/filename.n index c0e2a68..de77d8c 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 1.7 2001/09/04 18:06:34 vincentdarley Exp $ +'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: filename.n,v 1.8 2003/09/16 14:56:08 vincentdarley Exp $ '\" .so man.macros .TH filename n 7.5 Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands" @@ -200,15 +200,22 @@ 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. Also Windows 3.1 only supports file +\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 and MacOS 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. - +.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". .SH KEYWORDS current directory, absolute file name, relative file name, volume-relative file name, portability |