Save an Action to file

Hi. I've got Photoshop CS4 and have created an action. However, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to save the action to a file so I can share it with others. The action converts a PSD to JPG and exports it for the web. How do you save an action so you can share it? I don't want to share all of my actions -- just this one. Thanks.

I figured it out: You need to create a "New Set...", drag and drop the action into that, then select the new action set and click "Save Actions..." This will save the custom action to an *.atn file.

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I may not quite follow as I browsed the thread rather superficially, but Scripting may be useful in this case.
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