Never cam across this before. There were some hidden characters in your text file that preceeded the "1111". What program did you use to create it? In any case, I think that it's the UTF-8 format which is causing the problem. Try saving it as ANSI or maybe even Unicode formatted text and see if that helps (i.e., when clicking "save as"). When I did that here (using notepad.exe) MediaLab used the value without a problem.