Re: [Groff] New request `writec'

[Larry Kollar]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

> In analogy to `tmc' I've added `writec' which is similar to the
> `write' request but without emitting a final newline.

And in a valiant effort to keep the manual current, here's a
patch to groff.texinfo that covers it. :-)


--- groff.texinfo.orig  Sun Mar 17 09:00:16 2002
+++ groff.texinfo       Sun Mar 17 09:03:03 2002
@@ -10241,7 +10241,7 @@
 Opens the specified @var{file} for writing and
 associates the specified @var{stream} with it.
 
-The @code{opena} is like @code{open}, but if the file exists, append to
+The @code{opena} request is like @code{open}, but if the file exists, append to
 it instead of truncating it.
 @endDefreq
 
@@ -10249,12 +10249,16 @@
 @cindex mode, copy-in, and @code{write} requests
 @cindex writing to file (@code{write})
 @cindex file, writing to (@code{write})
address@hidden {write, stream data}
address@hidden {write, stream data}
address@hidden {writec, stream data}
 Writes to the file associated with the specified @var{stream}.
 The stream must previously have
 been the subject of an open request.  The remainder of the line is
 interpreted as the @code{ds} request reads its second argument: A
 leading @samp{"} is stripped, and it is read in copy-in mode.
+
+The @code{writec} request is like @code{write}, but only
address@hidden appends a newline to the data.
 @endDefreq
 
 @cindex closing file (@code{close})


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