I am extremely sorry to Kevin if I seemed to be aggressive to him. I sympathize with him about text versus binary for convenience in editing, e.g. .ini files versus the registry. But he misunderstood me. I was not wanting .CR2's to be in binary. As an example of shortening .CR2 files in some future version of Poser, compare:- - my flamethrower model's CR2 file, zipped nto http://www.buckrogers.demon.co.uk/3d/fl.zip : it is 305744 bytes. - a version of it with my suggested "channel defaults" paragraph (starting at its line 254, next after declaring the actor names), at http://www.buckrogers.demon.co.uk/shortcr2.txt : it is 159943 bytes By removing these repeated settings, and removing the keys{..} sub-blocks (which in an unanimated model seem to only serve to repeat things), I thinned out nearly half its bulk!