Hi. I want to open a TXT file with Visual Basic. This TXT
file was saved previously in MS-DOS Text format. How can I
open it?.

If by "open" you mean access the data contained within the file, you
can use VB's intrinsic I/O commands to open the file and get the data
into a string or byte array.  Have a look at the Open topic in your VB
help file for more info.  You might also want to look at the RTF
control as, I believe, it will bring the text in for you if you set
the correct properties.

HTH,
Bryan
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Open "your_file.txt" For Input As #1
Do Until Eof(1)
Line Input #1, txt$
Text1 = Text1 & txt$ & vbCrLf
Loop
Close #1

You must set Text1.Multiline = True

Hi Joza...

This will give better performance....

Private Sub Command1_Click()
   Dim iFile As Integer
   iFile = FreeFile
   Open "your_file.txt" For Input As iFile
   Text1.Text = Input$(LOF(iFile), iFile)
   Close #iFile
End Sub

.... also, .... the line below creates an entirely new buffer and replaces the entire
contents of the textbox each time it runs... you can speed your loop up (assuming you
still want to loop) by changing the line below...

...well, it's easier to show the whole thing so...

Private Sub Command1_Click()
   Dim txt$
   Open "c:\temp\clsSysController.cls.bak" For Input As #1
   Text1.Text = ""
   Do Until EOF(1)
      Line Input #1, txt$
      Text1.SelText = txt$ & vbCrLf
   Loop
   Close #1
End Sub

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Ken Halter - MS-MVP-VB - http://www.mvps.org/vbsight - Please keep it in the groups..

oops... posted the name of my test file.. that should be "your_file.txt" that we're trying
to open

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Ken Halter - MS-MVP-VB - http://www.mvps.org/vbsight - Please keep it in the groups..

Hm... Very interest...
I agree with you, but example that I gave was for begginiers...

That makes no sense.  You're saying that reading the file line by line in a
loop is "better for beginners" than reading the whole file at once?

Mike