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NAME
read - Read from a channel
SYNOPSIS
read ?-nonewline? channel read channel numChars ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
DESCRIPTION
The read command has been superceded by the chan read command which supports the same syntax and options.
SEE ALSO
chan(3tcl) Tcl 8.1 read(3tcl)