You need to refine your question a bit. Are you wanting to: A) Find a string in an already opened document or B) Search for a string among a group of files? As for saving from the log, it's a copy and paste job. ----- Original Message ---- From: PETER EASTHOPE <peasthope@shaw.ca> To: oberon@lists.inf.ethz.ch Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2007 5:05:11 PM Subject: [Oberon] elementary usage of Aos interface Folk, Suppose Aos is displaying its innate interface and the Kernel.log is open. How can these two simple actions be performed? Search for a given string such as "USB". Store the log to a file. Thanks for any clues, ... Peter E. http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool. http://autos.yahoo.com/carfinder/