On 2006-09-24, at 17:20:10, Nobumi Iyanaga wrote: > I tried with a large text (more than 18000 characters) this script: > > tell application "Nisus Writer Express" > set the_text to selected text of front document > end tell > > do shell script "echo" & space & quoted form of the_text & space & > "> ~/Desktop/testtext.txt" > > This seems to work without problem -- although it adds a > supplementary LF at the end of the file. do shell script "echo -n " & quoted form of the_text & " > ~/Desktop/ testtext.txt" If your text has no apostrophes (') then: do shell script "echo -n '" & the_text & "' > ~/Desktop/testtext.txt" Philip Aker [log in to unmask]