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fconfigure(n)		     Tcl Built-In Commands		 fconfigure(n)

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NAME
       fconfigure - Set and get options on a channel

SYNOPSIS
       fconfigure channelId
       fconfigure channelId name
       fconfigure channelId name value ?name value ...?
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DESCRIPTION
       The  fconfigure command sets and retrieves options for channels.	 Chan‐
       nelId identifies the channel for which to set or query an  option.   If
       no  name	 or  value  arguments are supplied, the command returns a list
       containing alternating option names and values  for  the	 channel.   If
       name  is	 supplied  but	no  value then the command returns the current
       value of the given option.  If one or more pairs of name and value  are
       supplied, the command sets each of the named options to the correspond‐
       ing value; in this case the return value is an empty string.

       The options described below are supported for all  channels.  In	 addi‐
       tion,  each channel type may add options that only it supports. See the
       manual entry for the command that creates each type of channels for the
       options	that  that specific type of channel supports. For example, see
       the manual entry for the socket command for its additional options.

       -blocking boolean
	      The -blocking option determines whether I/O  operations  on  the
	      channel  can cause the process to block indefinitely.  The value
	      of the option must be a proper boolean value.  Channels are nor‐
	      mally in blocking mode;  if a channel is placed into nonblocking
	      mode it will affect the  operation  of  the  gets,  read,	 puts,
	      flush,  and close commands; see the documentation for those com‐
	      mands for details.  For nonblocking mode to work correctly,  the
	      application  must	 be  using the Tcl event loop (e.g. by calling
	      Tcl_DoOneEvent or invoking the vwait command).

       -buffering newValue
	      If newValue is full then the I/O system will buffer output until
	      its  internal  buffer  is	 full  or  until  the flush command is
	      invoked. If newValue is line, then the I/O system will automati‐
	      cally  flush output for the channel whenever a newline character
	      is output. If newValue is none, the I/O system will flush	 auto‐
	      matically	 after	every  output  operation.   The default is for
	      -buffering to be set to full except for channels that connect to
	      terminal-like devices; for these channels the initial setting is
	      line.  Additionally, stdin and stdout are intially set to	 line,
	      and stderr is set to none.

       -buffersize newSize
	      Newvalue	must  be an integer; its value is used to set the size
	      of buffers, in bytes, subsequently allocated for this channel to
	      store input or output. Newvalue must be between ten and one mil‐
	      lion, allowing buffers of ten to one million bytes in size.

       -encoding name							       │
	      This option is used to specify the encoding of the  channel,  so │
	      that  the	 data  can be converted to and from Unicode for use in │
	      Tcl.  For instance, in order for Tcl to read characters  from  a │
	      Japanese	file  in shiftjis and properly process and display the │
	      contents, the encoding would be set  to  shiftjis.   Thereafter, │
	      when  reading  from  the channel, the bytes in the Japanese file │
	      would be converted to Unicode as they are read.  Writing is also │
	      supported	 - as Tcl strings are written to the channel they will │
	      automatically be converted to the specified encoding on output.  │

	      If a file contains  pure	binary	data  (for  instance,  a  JPEG │
	      image),  the encoding for the channel should be configured to be │
	      binary.  Tcl will then assign no interpretation to the  data  in │
	      the  file	 and  simply  read or write raw bytes.	The Tcl binary │
	      command can be used to manipulate this byte-oriented data.       │

	      The default encoding for newly opened channels is the same plat‐ │
	      form-  and locale-dependent system encoding used for interfacing │
	      with the operating system.				       │

       -eofchar char

       -eofchar {inChar outChar}
	      This option supports DOS file systems that use Control-z	(\x1a)
	      as  an end of file marker.  If char is not an empty string, then
	      this character signals end-of-file when it is encountered during
	      input.  For output, the end-of-file character is output when the
	      channel is closed.  If char is the empty string, then  there  is
	      no  special  end of file character marker.  For read-write chan‐
	      nels, a two-element list specifies the end of  file  marker  for
	      input  and output, respectively.	As a convenience, when setting
	      the end-of-file character for a read-write channel you can spec‐
	      ify  a single value that will apply to both reading and writing.
	      When querying the end-of-file character of a read-write channel,
	      a	 two-element  list will always be returned.  The default value
	      for -eofchar is the empty string in all cases except  for	 files
	      under  Windows.	In  that case the -eofchar is Control-z (\x1a)
	      for reading and the empty string for writing.

       -translation mode

       -translation {inMode outMode}
	      In Tcl scripts the end of a line is always represented  using  a
	      single  newline  character  (\n).	  However, in actual files and
	      devices the end of a line may be represented differently on dif‐
	      ferent  platforms,  or  even  for	 different devices on the same
	      platform.	 For example, under UNIX newlines are used  in	files,
	      whereas  carriage-return-linefeed sequences are normally used in
	      network connections.  On input (i.e., with gets  and  read)  the
	      Tcl I/O system automatically translates the external end-of-line
	      representation into newline characters.  Upon output (i.e., with
	      puts),  the  I/O system translates newlines to the external end-
	      of-line representation.  The  default  translation  mode,	 auto,
	      handles all the common cases automatically, but the -translation
	      option provides explicit control over the end of	line  transla‐
	      tions.

	      The  value  associated  with  -translation  is a single item for
	      read-only and write-only channels.  The value is	a  two-element
	      list  for	 read-write channels; the read translation mode is the
	      first element of the list, and the write translation mode is the
	      second  element.	As a convenience, when setting the translation
	      mode for a read-write channel you can  specify  a	 single	 value
	      that  will apply to both reading and writing.  When querying the
	      translation mode of a read-write	channel,  a  two-element  list
	      will  always  be	returned.   The following values are currently
	      supported:

	      auto   As the input translation mode, auto treats any of newline
		     (lf),  carriage  return (cr), or carriage return followed
		     by a newline (crlf) as the end  of	 line  representation.
		     The end of line representation can even change from line-
		     to-line, and all cases are translated to a	 newline.   As
		     the output translation mode, auto chooses a platform spe‐
		     cific representation; for sockets on  all	platforms  Tcl
		     chooses  crlf,  for  all Unix flavors, it chooses lf, for
		     the Macintosh platform it chooses cr and for the  various
		     flavors  of Windows it chooses crlf.  The default setting
		     for -translation is auto for both input and output.

	      binary							       │
		     No	 end-of-line  translations  are	 performed.   This  is │
		     nearly  identical	to  lf	mode,  except that in addition │
		     binary mode also sets the end-of-file  character  to  the │
		     empty string (which disables it) and sets the encoding to │
		     binary (which  disables  encoding	filtering).   See  the │
		     description  of  -eofchar and -encoding for more informa‐ │
		     tion.

	      cr     The end of a line in the underlying  file	or  device  is
		     represented  by  a	 single carriage return character.  As
		     the input translation mode,  cr  mode  converts  carriage
		     returns to newline characters.  As the output translation
		     mode, cr mode translates newline characters  to  carriage
		     returns.	This mode is typically used on Macintosh plat‐
		     forms.

	      crlf   The end of a line in the underlying  file	or  device  is
		     represented  by a carriage return character followed by a
		     linefeed character.  As the input translation mode,  crlf
		     mode  converts carriage-return-linefeed sequences to new‐
		     line characters.  As the output  translation  mode,  crlf
		     mode  translates  newline	characters to carriage-return-
		     linefeed sequences.  This mode is typically used on  Win‐
		     dows platforms and for network connections.

	      lf     The  end  of  a  line in the underlying file or device is
		     represented by a single newline (linefeed) character.  In
		     this  mode	 no  translations occur during either input or
		     output.  This mode is typically used on UNIX platforms.

SEE ALSO
       close(n), flush(n), gets(n), puts(n), read(n), socket(n)

KEYWORDS
       blocking, buffering, carriage return, end of line, flushing,  linemode,
       newline,	 nonblocking,  platform,  translation,	encoding, filter, byte
       array, binary

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