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<a href="display.asp?TxtFileName=FileOne.txt">DisplayFileOne</a>

<a href="display.asp?TxtFileName=FileTwo.txt">DisplayFileTwo</a>

<% 
 sFile=Request("TxtFileName") 
 Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") 
  
 Set objM = FSO.OpenTextFile(Server.MapPath(sFile)) 
  
 MsTxt = objM.ReadAll 
 objM.Close 
  
 MsTxt=Server.HTMLEncode(MsTxt) 
 MsTxt=Replace(MsTxt,vbCrLf,"<BR>") 
 MsTxt= "<Left><Table Width='600'>" & MsTxt 
 MsTxt= MsTxt & "</Table></Left>" 
  
 Response.Write MsTxt 
 %>

• If your txt file is in a different directory than the display.asp page then your hyperlink on Page1 needs to identify the path to the txt file, like:
  <a href="display.asp?TxtFileName=Directory2/FileOne.txt">DisplayOne</a>


• The line "MsTxt=Server.HTMLEncode(MsTxt)" can be deleted if you would like html tags within the txt file to work. If left off then javasript and asp code within the txt file will also be implemented.


• You can change the width value to whatever you want.


• This even displays correctly in Netscape 4.75+ Wow!


• Don't forget to look at Katherine's use of the <pre> tag in the thread above. If you choose to have the txt file containing HTML code then you may find the <pre> tag very useful.

• If you want a copy of the snippets I've collected (why this thread started) then right-mouse-click on the hyperlink below & "Save target as..."
  http://www.serenitynet.net/downloads/snippets.txt


• If you want, send me snippets you've found really useful. As I have time, I'll add them to the file at the url above. Just e-mail them to me in a txt file ready to copy and paste into the existing file. Try to give credit to your source.

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Glad you brought that up, Gil. I have a calendar program that writes events to a text file that appears to be tab delimited. I would like to be able to display it on an html page in a list, in addition to the regular calendar. So after reading Katherine's PRE /PRE suggestion, I tried this:
<PRE>
<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/calendar/file.txt" -->
</PRE>
and all I got was a couldn't process the directive error. The page I was calling it from is in the root.
Any suggestions for me?

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...and you don't get a VB error because the txt file contains ASP &/or JavaScript code?

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Nevet tried to show HTML code as ascii, I would guess you'r UUENCODE it some how - nowyou got me thinking

Gil Harvey
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Hmm, on a Unix/Apache box it's a little less coding

Inside a table set to the width you need:
<!--#include virtual="/somedir/file.txt" -->

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Hey Iv'e been thinking about that. A Snippet vault! I know we all have snippets somewhere. Actually that's what i find myself saying, "now where did I put that snippet?"

<spellcheck> </spellcheck>

Also, does this work in Linux?

Edited by - caywind on 02/27/2002 22:28:39

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Sorry, just noticed Gils one liner

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Hmm, on a Unix/Apache box it's a little less coding

Inside a table set to the width you need:
<!--#include virtual="/somedir/file.txt" -->

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Confirming the bug even in Linux. The form text wraps as you type it, but in an include page it will move off of the screen. Line break problem, my form results are currently being saved as "Formatted text within HTML". That gives the <pre> tags. I tried to use a size attribute in the <pre> tag but it is ignored. I will be testing the suggestion about using a cell in a table...Has anybody ever tried one of the other formats, <dl> or <ul> ?


<spellcheck> </spellcheck>

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Hey William...looks like my <longwinded> answer to my own question got in six minutes before your </longwinded> <terse> one </terse>

<spellcheck> </spellcheck>

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You sure did!


I also noticed your edits are not quoting SerenityNet as the way he puts it. Was it some typo error?


William Lee

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