Christopher,

I appears to me that all you need to do is add the part of the program where you either enter the desired file name or use the GETFILE function, as illustrated by Cetin Basoz, so that you have a file name to pass as a parameter.

Just my 2 cents, no, make that 1 cent.


>I am a bit lost on how to work with text file.
>
>Scenario: Changing a text file contents into a text file contents that I can work with
>Roadblock: Need to understand how to import a "fixed" name textfile into the program.
>
>Current program starts as below:
>PARAMETER tcfile
>CLEAR
>PRIVATE pcdt, pctime1, pctermi, pcinout, pcnoee, pcfile
>STORE '' TO pcdt, pctime1, pcnoee
>IF PCOUNT() <> 1
> WAIT WINDOW TIMEOUT 10 'Source ascii file was not defined! Please define source filename.'
> RETURN
>ENDIF
>IF .NOT. FILE(tcfile)
> WAIT WINDOW TIMEOUT 2 'File does not exist or incorrect filename!'
> RETURN
>ENDIF
>
>As you can see, I have use parameter and I have to name a text file together to get the prg to work. All that is okay, but when compiled to exe, there exist a problem when I run the exe outside of foxpro it does not work.
>
>Can someone let me know how to improve this program so that when outside the foxpro environment I can just run this program with the text file found in the same folder.
>
>Appreciate some assistance here.
>
>Regards,
>Christopher