Bracket mismatch - you\'re missing a closing } - you should always doublecheck and close ALL the brackets you\'re using, otherwise the script is likely to mess up. Also, I can\'t fathom why you\'ve stuck write commands in there... that\'ll eventually make the text file HUGE, since every time somebody does !fortune the script writes all those lines to txt file. Why not just instruct people to make a file named fortune.txt in their mIRC directory? Also: I know it works anyway, but try and use $read properly (it\'s $read(filename.txt), not $read filename.txt).