Saving Objects To A File

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tonyg

z80jim, I'm trying exactly the same thing at the moment.
I have tried...

mynew:Ttest = new Ttest
field blah, blah blah
end type.
local Myptr:byte ptr = byte ptr(mynew)
myfile:tStream=writefile("output.dat")
for count = 0 to sizeof(mynew)
  writebyte(myfile,myptr[count]
next
closefile myfile.

<this is from scratch rather than an actual program>
However, checking the output file using Hex Editor shows some of the characters transposed.
Not sure why yet but it might be the fact I have the wrong field type in my Object (long story).
You might want to try it and see what happens but, it's likely, an instance isn't in contiguous memory.
<edit> Hmmm, might try...

Local mybank:TBank=CreateStaticBank(mynew,SizeOf(mynew))
Local myfile:TStream=WriteStream("decs1.txt")
WriteBank(mybank,myfile,0,SizeOf(mynews))
CloseFile myfile