Thanks. save %article.r article saves the following in %article.r make object! [ headline: "headlineokay" subheadline: "subheadlineokay" body: ["by golly" "" "by gumby" ""] ] -Ryan >Why don't you use save? > >>> save article > >will write the object to a file. Later you can read or load it back. In >either case you will have to either do the result of reading the file, >to >convert the string (read) or block (load) to an object: > >retrieved-article: do read %article.txt >retrieved-article: do load %article.txt