working with binary socket data

[bri...@evoserve.com]

I'm working with data coming in on a socket. It's in binary form, and I
can expect values of 0x00 coming in. How do I fconfigure my filehandle
so that Tcl doesn't screw up my data?

Are there any problems I should be aware of?

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[yo...@drexel.edu]

In article <7id8dn$4bd$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,

bri...@evoserve.com wrote:
> I'm working with data coming in on a socket. It's in binary form, and
I
> can expect values of 0x00 coming in. How do I fconfigure my filehandle
> so that Tcl doesn't screw up my data?
>
> Are there any problems I should be aware of?

Nah:
fconfigure $sock -translation binary -buffering full -buffsize 2048

That will eliminate any translation Tcl will try to do, and give you a
2 K buffer/packetsize to tailor as you need. Set -buffering to "none"
if you simply want to flush on send and recieve.

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Sean Woods
yo...@drexel.edu

[Andreas Kupries]

yo...@drexel.edu writes:

> In article <7id8dn$4bd$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
> bri...@evoserve.com wrote:
> > I'm working with data coming in on a socket. It's in binary form, and

> > can expect values of 0x00 coming in. How do I fconfigure my filehandle

> > so that Tcl doesn't screw up my data?

> > Are there any problems I should be aware of?

> Nah:
> fconfigure $sock -translation binary -buffering full -buffsize 2048

> That will eliminate any translation Tcl will try to do, and give you
> a 2 K buffer/packetsize to tailor as you need. Set -buffering to
> "none" if you simply want to flush on send and recieve.

If working under Tcl 8.1 'fconfigure -encoding binary' is required
too, to avoid internal recoding into UTF-8.

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