From: Simon Schuster Date: 2007-09-25T03:17:52+09:00 Subject: my code hangs it DID (kind of) work and even exit, but only after going through one log, rather than appending ALL of them, formatted, into a file like I wanted, so I added line 13, and a corresponding end at the bottom. :P now it makes the main_text.txt, but hangs. I'm new to ruby/programming, just thought this'd be a fun learning project. http://pastebin.com/m1b60ac85 for the future: formatting based way more on keywords in the dialogue, as well as possibly project gutenberg searches of related/random text for narrative, and finally using lulu's API (http://api.lulu.com/) or createspace, if I can find an API for them, to automatically publish and purchase a copy. could TOTALLY be extended to have commercial value in record-keeping, for companies that use IM and RSS, if that were implemented, which it might be anyway because hey, blogs. Title = Chaptertitle. yeah they'd be short chapters, but I like richard brautigan and thousands of livejournal users would be aching to see themselves in print, I'm sure. :) any help in any of these areas is appreciated! thank you kindly.