From: axel.friedrich_smail@... Date: 2006-07-21T19:30:06+09:00 Subject: io.write with buffer size? Hello all, is there a way to do an io.write _with a certain buffer size_ ? I need to do the same as somebody else did in TcL like this: fconfigure $file -buffersize 16 -buffering none -encoding binary -translation binary puts -nonewline $file [binary format "h*" $string] Thanks Axel OS: Linux Ruby 1.8.4