Are you uisng an Essay for the open ended item? If, instead, you use a fill-in-the blank it might be easier. If you specify a file name ending with .txt for a scale response or fill-in-the-blank item, the subject’s response to the question will be written to that text file preceded by a ~. The file can be located anywhere. Then other programs like DirectRT have the option of reading and acting on this information. It was particularly intended for use with DirectRT so that responses provided by subjects could be used as stimuli in an embedded DirectRT session.