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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2022-03-08 17:55:27 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2022-03-08 17:55:27 +0000
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH TANGLE 1 "16 June 2015" "Web2C 2022"
+.TH TANGLE 1 "02 March 2022" "Web2C 2022"
.\"=====================================================================
.if n .ds MF Metafont
.if t .ds MF Metafont
@@ -21,7 +21,12 @@ tangle \- translate WEB to Pascal
.B tangle
.RI [ options ]
.IR webfile [ \fB.web\fP ]
-.RI [ changefile [ \fB.ch\fP ]]
+[ {
+.IR changefile [ \fB.ch\fP ]
+|\-}
+[
+.IR outfile [ \fB.p\fP ]
+] ]
.\"=====================================================================
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete
@@ -47,23 +52,29 @@ familiar with both \*(TX and Pascal. \*(WB also provides a relatively
simple, although adequate, macro facility that permits a Pascal program
to be written in small easily-understood modules.
.PP
-The command line should have either one or two names on it.
+The command line should have one, two or three names on it.
The first is taken as the \*(WB file (and
.B .web
is added if there is no
extension).
-If there is another name, it is a change file (and
+If there is second name, it is a change file (and
.B .ch
is added if there is
no extension). The change file overrides parts of the \*(WB file,
as described in the \*(WB system documentation.
.PP
-The output files are a Pascal file and a string pool file,
-whose names are formed by adding
+If there is a third name, it is the Pascal output file (and
.B .p
-and
+is added if there is no extension). In this case you can specify an empty
+change file with '-' as the second argument.
+Otherwise the name of the Pascal file is formed by adding
+.B .p
+to the root of the \*(WB file name.
+.PP
+An optional second output file is a string pool file,
+whose name is formed by adding
.B .pool
-respectively to the root of the \*(WB file name.
+to the root of the Pascal file name.
.\"=====================================================================
.SH "OPTIONS"
This version of