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zliazmei

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Feb 5, 2002
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Hi There!

May be here is not exact place for looking for a answer but:

Have the problem.
How can I Make a table in Access that will look for a files *.dwg in a subfolder named "SUB".

Just A simple file storage but I can not find the decision

ZMEI

 
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zliazmei,


1. Make a batch file (*.bat) which contains this text for example:

dir c:\sub\*.dwg/b >c:\sub\dirlist.txt

2. save it say on c:\sub\dirbat.bat

3. prepare RunApplication on macro with command line c:\sub\dirbat.bat


4. Run macro

5. Attach the text output dirlist.txt as linked table.

209larry
 
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