In einer eMail vom 14.03.00 16:49:23 (MEZ) Mitteleuropäische Zeit schreibt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: << Thanks for the rescue. will paste it. BTW, one missing thing is "^^"? :) "^^"?? Hahaha, no, Your code is ok :-) I changed it a bit for my needs, see below. Thank you, database runs again :) (Have not really testet the 'save-history yet, should be the right syntax) Volker ; ; nearly History save and load by Christoph Mammitzsch ; save-history: func[ "Saves system/console/history to file." file [ file! ] "the file to save to" ][write file mold-string-series system/console/history] mold-string-series: func [ history [ series! ] "the series to save" /nocopy "trashs input, but saves memory. >2mb mails yet" /local line subst ][ if not nocopy [history: copy history] forall history [ line: mold first history if equal? first line #"{" [ line: change line #"^"" forall line [ subst: select [ #"^"" "^^^"" #"^/" "^^/" ;There must be more. I'm sure I forgot something :) ] first line if not none? subst [ remove line line: back insert line subst ] ] change back line #"^"" line: head line ] change/only history line ] history: head history ] load-history: func [ "Restores system/console/history from file." file [ file! ] "the file to load from" /local history ][ system/console/history: load file exit ] In einer eMail vom 14.03.00 13:08:23 (MEZ) Mitteleuropäische Zeit schreibt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: << Hi Volker, this problem has been found before, when trying to save history to files, here's a history save function, that does it right ... >> Volker