In a message dated 10/08/1999 12:31:05 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
futurebasic-digest-help@... writes:

I wrote:

<<If you then want to make a SimpleText file you:

1) Get the ZTXT handle of the edit field
2) split it into TEXT and styl components
3) Insert them into a resource fork of a file opened as type "TEXTttxt" as 
"TEXT" and "styl" resources #128.>>

I wasn't thinking to clearly last night, since this was off the top of my 
head. The TEXT goes in the data fork and the styl goes in #128.
Anyway, I am sure I could get you a working FN if you need it.

Mark