On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, david rush wrote: > It appears that if I want access to the raw octets ofo a file using > Gambit 4.0, that I should open the file using a byte port with an > encoding of Latin-1. Is this correct? Not really. You should look at the documentation, section 16.6.2 "Byte-port operations". You'll find what you want there. Guillaume