@Allen. I suppose it was me hoping it would be the equivalent of script56.chm for vbscript, which helped me out a great deal. The UDFs are good if it's what you're looking for.

@NTDOC, I've read a few of them. I'm not sure I have the time to participate in recreational scripting yet. Maybe some time.

@Richard. The same thing crossed my mind. Here's the same piece of code I posted above, only in kix.
 Code:
$objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
$objFile = $objFSO.OpenTextFile("C:\MyFile.txt",2,True)
$objFile.Write("The contents of MyFile.txt")
$objFile.Close

Yes, I'm very comfortable with FileSystemObject for reading, overwriting, appending files, getting information about files (size, date motified/created, existence) etc. I suppose if I can master the syntax differences between vbscript and kix, I'll be good to go. Little things like putting a $ at the beginning of variables and using + instead of & are no big deal. Where I'm getting thrown off is things like the FileSystemObject...there's no "set" anywhere!