http://www.purl.org/tcl/home/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/tell.htm 

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-- tell and flush

are friends: if you are using tell
and you do reads and writes in between, you usually have to do
a flush or your tell will fail with a -1 value. This is because
the Tcl Channel code cannot 


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