[AccessD] changing to A2K: error in import

In A2k and later, Access does not recognize files with odd extensions as
text files, so it regards them as read-only.  There are registry hacks
you can use but in our apps, which get distributed to clients all over
the world, we decided that it was not our place to meddle with the
clients settings that way, so we switched to txt extensions for all our
text files.

Charlotte Foust

-----Original Message-----
From: pedro at plex.nl [mailto:pedro at plex.nl] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 8:02 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [AccessD] changing to A2K: error in import


Hello grooup,

i have a database in A97 that works fine. I am converting this database
to A2k and i get an error when importing a file. The import is done with
a macro with the TransferText action. I use for this an Import spec on a
filename that has an extension ".gyn". The text in this file is normal
textfile in columns. When using this macro i get an error: Cannot
update. Database or object is read-only. I double checked, nothing is
read only. In A97 this works fine. In A2k it only works when changing
the extension to ".txt" (the file and the FileName in the macro).

How is this possible?
I don't want to change the extensions of the filenames to ".txt.,
because these extensions helps me to keep files separated for different
macro's and different actions.


Pedro Janssen
Cytologist
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