On Tue, 16 May 2006 15:52:36 GMT, salad <oil@vinegar.com> wrote:
Also look at the FileCopy function to actually copy the file.
-Tom.
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>Paddy wrote:
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>> Dear forum,
>>
>> I am currently building my first Access (XP) database from scratch, and
>> I would like to be able to enable users of this database to enter a
>> filename in an Access form so that, once the filename has been
>> specified, the (.dbf) file is copied and given a new name. Can anybody
>> help me with this?[/color]
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>Look at DIR and NAME in help. Look at the examples in the help file for
>each topic.
>
>You might want to go to
http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0001.htm for a
>FileOpen/Save dialog solution to get your filenames.
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>> (I then hope to use some borrowed code to link to the file from the
>> database and append the data it contains to a table in my database, but
>> that will have to wait until I've managed the first step, since I can't
>> link to the .dbf file unless the name is in the correct format - no
>> more than eight characters long, including spaces. )
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