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.so man.macros
.HS puts tcl
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.SH NAME
puts \- Write to a file
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBputs \fR?\fB\-nonewline\fR? ?\fIfileId\fR? \fIstring\fR
.BE

.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
Writes the characters given by \fIstring\fR to the file given
by \fIfileId\fR.
\fIFileId\fR must have been the return
value from a previous call to \fBopen\fR, or it may be
\fBstdout\fR or \fBstderr\fR to refer to one of the standard I/O
channels; it must refer to a file that was opened for
writing.
If no \fIfileId\fR is specified then it defaults to \fBstdout\fR.
\fBPuts\fR normally outputs a newline character after \fIstring\fR,
but this feature may be suppressed by specifying the \fB\-nonewline\fR
switch.
Output to files is buffered internally by Tcl; the \fBflush\fR
command may be used to force buffered characters to be output.

.SH KEYWORDS
file, newline, output, write