OK, since you all have been so helpful in my endeavours to get my MEL chops up to par, I'm back again with another question. I'm trying to write out a text file that lists most of the render globals. I've basically got everything working except for one major problem. I've tried using both fwrite and fprint, but they both only seem to append the specified file.What I need to do is either overwrite the file, or erase the file before re-writing it. Anyone have any thoughts on how to do that? Thanks again, -dann