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- .so man.macros
- .HS tell tcl
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- .SH NAME
- tell \- Return current access position for an open file
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- \fBtell \fIfileId\fR
- .BE
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- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .PP
- Returns a decimal string giving the current access position in
- \fIfileId\fR.
- \fIFileId\fR must have been the return
- value from a previous call to \fBopen\fR, or it may be \fBstdin\fR,
- \fBstdout\fR, or \fBstderr\fR to refer to one of the standard I/O
- channels.
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- .SH KEYWORDS
- access position, file
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