creating non .txt files in vb6

pwd · 2005-09-14 19:16:36

Open szFileName For Output As #2 When this is passed a string such as "test.abc", for example, it creates a file "test.txt" instead of using the extension I want. Why is this happening please?

14-09-2005 07:16PM

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Open szFileName For Output As #2

When this is passed a string such as "test.abc", for example, it creates a file "test.txt" instead of using the extension I want. Why is this happening please?

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#2 14-09-2005 07:41PM

Hobbes

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for vb6 you have to specify the filetype before hand but I forget the command.

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#3 14-09-2005 08:34PM

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It was saving correctly after all, but this computer was displaying the file type as text files (wrongly).

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#4 15-09-2005 06:06AM

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Try using the streams instead? eg.

Set FileSys = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set outStream = FileSys.CreateTextFile(outFile, OverwriteIfExist, OpenAsASCII)
Do
	outStream.WriteLine textLine
Loop Until inStream.AtEndOfStream ' change to whatever.
outStream.Close

#5 19-09-2005 06:17PM

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sorry I meant that it was working already - the PC I was using had weird file associations that made it look like it wasn't at first.

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