Re: ace syntax

At 12:46 11/07/97 +0200, you wrote: }On 11 Jul 97 at 7:49, Pete Harris wrote: } }> I believe the more recent ace report writers allow you to read from }> an ascii file (as well as database tables). Could somebody remind me }> what the syntax is to do that? I would RTFM if I could find TFM. } }AFAIK, Ace doens't allow you to do any processing of the contents of }an ASCII file, it only allows you to print the contents of the file }using the imaginative PRINT FILE syntax. } }HTH. } Just a thought here - if the original question was about READing from a file instead of SELECTing from tables, then you can treat the data just the same. I think (but I haven't actually done this) that the PRINT FILE statement is for incorporating eg a text file into the output of the report. Cheers, Richard.