Hi Michael, this is a simple C++ task and has nothing to do with MSX incomplete Sample Code ... LPSTR l_pszFileName = (LPSTR)(l_szFileName); //create Output File HANDLE hFile = CreateFile(l_pszFileName,GENERIC_WRITE,0,0,CREATE_ALWAYS,FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL,0); // Output File is generated if(hFile != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) { CloseHandle(hFile); FILE *l_pszResultFile; l_pszResultFile = fopen(l_pszFileName,"w+"); .... // Now you can add all information to the file, maybe something like this char buffer[1000]; p = sprintf( buffer,"%s\\n", var1); p += sprintf( buffer + p,"%s\\n", var2); p += sprintf( buffer + p, "%5d", var3 ); // add your text to the file fputs(buffer,l_pszResultFile); .... // close the file fclose(l_pszResultFile); // if you like, you can open this file in Notepad with this call ShellExecute(NULL, "open", "notepad.exe", l_pszFileName, NULL, SW_SHOW); Ok? :D

Hi Chris, I am in the process of writing a DLL that writes alerts to a SQL database. And by alerts I mean all of the information required in the security such as symbol, datetime bar, close, periodicity, interval, alert type (custom), alert value (custom). I am writing a VB.NET application to monitor this table and automate trades via a trading rules engine... this includes email/sms to key traders within our company. Metastock has some 'less than efficient' features that make this a challenge, but Im almost there. If you want to do anything useful with the actual alerts I would suggest that you write to a database rather than text file as pulling data out of a database table is a lot friendler and faster than a text file. Jeremy