It's just a matter of taste and/or habit. Quite frankly, I never think about using #streamContents nor #readStream or other variations since I've always had to write that kinda code "the long way" since 1992 ! ----------------- Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean Instagram: Chef_Benito IRC: lamneth Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com "A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero". (A. Einstein) On Monday, December 3, 2018, 11:09:31 a.m. EST, Roelof Wobben <r.wobben@home.nl> wrote: Op 3-12-2018 om 17:01 schreef Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users: Many many many thanks For me too and that is the answer I expect Two question, Why is trough StandardFileStream a line and can this also be rewritten with a StreamContents Roelof