started by [Theo Verelst]

manual page discussions are (temporarily ?) stored here, at least by me for the moment, 
maybe this can be a transient page, or at least one which gets emptied with the next 
release.

'''Binary'''
Lsrge number of options, I didn't go over all the option examples, even though they're important. Bottom example:

 EXAMPLES
       This  is  a procedure write a Tcl string to a binary-encoded channel as
       UTF-8 data preceded by a length word: proc writeString {channel string}
       {
           set data [encoding convertto utf-8 $string]
           puts -nonewline [binary format Ia* \
                   [string length $data] $data] }

       This  procedure  reads  a string from a channel that was written by the
       previously presented writeString procedure: proc readString {channel} {
           if {![binary scan [read $channel 4] I length]} {
               error "missing length"
           }
           set data [read $channel $length]
           return [encoding convertfrom utf-8 $data] }

Formatting issue.
Interesting.
mind that a non-blocking read of 4 can stall your whole program in case of error...


'''dict'''
oops a command I don't know about.