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Re: st: Re: Prompt user of ado file for input & output file names & path
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Re: st: Re: Prompt user of ado file for input & output file names & path
Date
Mon, 4 Jul 2011 12:51:03 +0100
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On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Partho Sarkar <[email protected]> wrote:
> This may be a very basic question! I am writing an ado file which
> will take a data file, perform some operations on the data, and write
> the resulting data to another file. How could I write commands to ask
> the user to enter the names (with paths) of the input & output files?
> This could be either in the form of displaying a text box/boxes for
> the file names or, much more preferably, allow the user to browse (in
> Windows) to the directory & input file.
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