If you're trying to read it in to a tcl string from a blob and then display it you
will need the ns_returnbinary command from my binary support module at
http://www.vorteon.com/download/.
I think you could probably set up one of the files in your tcl directory to do a
rename ns_return ns_return_classic
rename ns_returnbinary ns_return
rename ns_write ns_write_classic
rename ns_writebinary ns_write
and use these commands all the time but I haven't tried that.
I don't know how these commands might interact with your other efforts.