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Again, many thanks to all the responsders to my question about putting new-lines in character strings. It may not be the most portable way but it worked fine. I appended the value of achar(010) to the end of each "line" and then wrote the resulting character variable (with many such new-lines embedded into it) to the HDF file. That did exactly what I wanted it to do. If I retrieve the text from the hdf file (a file descriptor annotation to be more precise), it shows up as I formatted it, with all the line-breaks in there. Portability is not an issue here as the code in question is only going to be run on a single platform (SGI Origin). Catherine -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Catherine Moroney phone : (818) 393-3392 Jet Propulsion Laboratory fax : (818) 393-4802 MailStop 169-315 email : [log in to unmask] 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena, CA 91109-8099