LB> I'm looking for different ways to do persistant objects... at least I 
hope
 LB> that's the correct term.  Basically, I just want objects that can load 
and
 LB> save themselves.  The saving bit's easy, but doing
 LB>         Object *loaded = load_Object(fname);
Have you taken a look into how Java accomplishes the same thing?  That might 
become very informative.
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