http://purl.org/tcl/home/man/tcl8.5/TclCmd/fconfigure.htm See also [channel] and [open]. An important use is fconfigure $binaryDataFile -translation binary to make sure the file is read as binary data. ---- [LV] 2008 Feb 28 Some of the wiki pages talk about the construct === fconfigure $serial_port -mode "$baudRate,$plex,$bits,$polarity" === or some such thing. But the man page above doesn't talk about a -mode flag. Has that moved elsewhere now? ---- !!!!!! [Tcl syntax help] - [Arts and crafts of Tcl-Tk programming] %| [Category Command] | [Category Channel] | [Category File] |% !!!!!!