It's usual to put values in the Value: section, and indeed it is described
there. I am not sure why I would expect it in Details: too.
Looks like `positive' is out-of-date, though.
On 27 Nov 2001, A.J. Rossini wrote:
>
> seek(zz,where=NewPosition) returns the OldPosition of connection zz
> (of the appropriate "pointer", i.e. read or write). Currently,
the
> docs have:
>
> > Details:
> >
> > `seek' with `where = NA' returns the current byte offset
of a
> > connection (from the beginning), and with a positive `where'
> > argument the connection is re-positioned (if possible) to the
> > specified position.
>
>
> One possible change would be to:
>
>
> > Details:
> >
> > `seek' with `where = NA' returns the current byte offset
of a
> > connection (from the beginning), and with a positive `where'
> > argument the connection is re-positioned (if possible) to the
> > specified position, returning the previous position.
>
> (since seek() seems to return "current/previous position", at
least
> for the variants I seem to use).
>
> best,
> -tony
>
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