From 079b4e7f798cf7f11af7c4ed66e1ad212ce2ba63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tomas <tomas>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 23:58:05 +0000
Subject: Improving lfs.attributes' reference

---
 doc/us/manual.html | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/us/manual.html b/doc/us/manual.html
index 933ab98..d91682f 100644
--- a/doc/us/manual.html
+++ b/doc/us/manual.html
@@ -81,8 +81,13 @@ The compiled binary should be copied to a directory in your LUA_CPATH.</p>
 <p>LuaFileSystem offers the following functions:</p>
 
 <dl class="reference">
-    <dt><a name="attributes"></a><strong><code>lfs.attributes (filepath)</code></strong></dt>
-    <dd>Returns a table with the file attributes corresponding to <code>filepath</code>.
+    <dt><a name="attributes"></a><strong><code>lfs.attributes (filepath [, aname])</code></strong></dt>
+    <dd>Returns a table with the file attributes corresponding to
+    <code>filepath</code>.
+    If the second optional argument is given, then only the value of the
+    named attribute is returned (this use is equivalent to
+    <code>lfs.attributes(filepath).aname</code>, but the table is not created
+    and only one attribute is retrieved from the O.S.).
     The attributes are: 
         <dl>
         <dt><strong><code>dev</code></strong></dt>
@@ -198,7 +203,7 @@ The compiled binary should be copied to a directory in your LUA_CPATH.</p>
 <div id="about">
 	<p><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10" alt="Valid XHTML 1.0!" height="31" width="88" /></a></p>
 	<p><small>
-	$Id: manual.html,v 1.25 2006/02/07 01:42:58 uid20013 Exp $
+	$Id: manual.html,v 1.26 2006/03/03 23:58:05 tomas Exp $
 	</small></p>
 </div> <!-- id="about" -->
 
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