[AccessD] A2003:Connect to a text file at a web address

Hi all
I am most grateful for all the suggestions
And thanks to all who shared their code (Gotta love this list) <VBG>

>From what I can see I can't actually do what I set out to do
That is - use the link table wizard to 'connect' to a text file on a web
site.

What I will do is (as Stuart Suggested) just FTP the text file from my
website 
to the back end location (I have a code routine in the back end for
autoupdating) 
And set up the link table wizard to that FTP'd text file and read the
version from that
And then run the necessary code if a newer version exists.

Many many thanks again to all who responded

DD



-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of MartyConnelly
Sent: Tuesday, 21 December 2004 5:59 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] A2003:Connect to a text file at a web address

Well there is the Inet Internet transfer control not sure if it is attached
to IE dll's or you could try
  Private Declare Function URLDownloadToFile Lib "urlmon" Alias _
"URLDownloadToFileA" (ByVal pCaller As Long, _
    ByVal szURL As String, ByVal szFileName As String, ByVal dwReserved As _
Long, ByVal lpfnCB As Long) As Long

 Sub tryurl()
  Dim retVal As Long
  Dim URL As String
  Dim LocalFileName As String

  ' change this line to the URL of the file:
  URL =
"http://www5.brinkster.com/mconnelly/GenericDB/ordersSubFormform.txt"

  ' change this line to the local filename to save the file as:
  LocalFileName = "c:\temp\testform.txt"

  retVal = URLDownloadToFile(0, URL, LocalFileName, 0, 0)

  If retVal = 0 Then
   Debug.Print "File received."
  Else
   Debug.Print "Unable to download file."
  End If
End Sub

Stuart McLachlan wrote:

>On 19 Dec 2004 at 23:37, MartyConnelly wrote:
>
>  
>
>>' I am using latest Version of IE6
>>' should also work with IE5.0 MSXML ver 2.0,2.6, 3.0 etc
>>
>>    
>>
>
>And for the growing number of people like myself  who use Firefox and 
>have their firewall block IE from accessing the Internet? :-)
>
>  
>

--
Marty Connelly
Victoria, B.C.
Canada


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