Data from Access to Text and Excell with only distributable references and Components

What references do you believe can not be freely shipped?

The laws may be different in your country and am I am not a lawyer nor am I connected with the legal profession in anyway, so please do not interpret this as legal advice. But - as I read the licence agreement shipped with VB Enterprise you can redistribute the runtime libraries for DAO and RDO but there is a fairly convoluted constraint re MS-Office - other editions of VB may have other constraints. Again, I am not a lawyer so you should list the references and seek a solicitors opinion.

To look at it another way if you couldn't ship the run time libaries to access an MS-Access table, what use is VB for building a commercial application?

I tried to use the Microsoft Access 8.0 Object library but you cannot redistribute those libraries.  That is what I meant I think I know what track I need to be on but I cannot find an example.  I believe I have to use the Open and Write or Put statements but I am not sure of the most efficient way to code those as I have never used them before and one of my tables has 110 fields and I hate to have to append those fields even in code.  so if Someone has some suggestion or an example I would love them forever ha ha.

Penny, don't use the Access 8.0 library, but use DAO in VB to read your table and get it into a text file.  This is freely distributable with your vb application and will be included in your install by the setup wizard.  For something as trivial as what you want to do, using the Access Object library is like using a sledgehammer to drive tacks!  Pick up and modify one of the many examples in vb help (Opendatabase, etc) and it will get you on your way.

I know more than that.  I need to use the Open, put and Get statements.  I already have an answer and I will post the code tomorrow.

Private Type ClaimRecord 'Define user-defined Type
        ReportingPolicy As String * 2
        ClaimNo As String * 4
        ClaimGroupNo As String * 3
        ClaimGroupSequence As String * 2



End Type


lnRecord = 1
        lsSQL = "Select * from ClaimTable"
        Set lrsExport = gdbReportData.OpenRecordSet(lsSQL, dbOpenDynaset)
        lrsExport.MoveFirst
        Open "d:\reporting system\TestClaim.txt" For Random Access Read Write As #1 Len = 1125
        lrecRecord.ReportingPolicy = lrsExport.Fields(0).Name  ' trying to get headers somehow
       
        lrecRecord.ClaimNo = lrsExport.Fields(1).Name
        lrecRecord.ClaimGroupNo = lrsExport.Fields(2).Name
        lrecRecord.ClaimGroupSequence = lrsExport.Fields(3).Name

        Put #1, lnRecord, lrecRecord
       
        Do While Not lrsExport.EOF
            lnRecord = lnRecord + 1
            If IsNull(lrsExport.Fields(0)) Then
                lrecRecord.ReportingPolicy = ""
            Else
                lrecRecord.ReportingPolicy = lrsExport.Fields(0)
            End If
            If IsNull(lrsExport.Fields(1)) Then
                lrecRecord.ClaimNo = ""
            Else
                lrecRecord.ClaimNo = lrsExport.Fields(1)
            End If
            If IsNull(lrsExport.Fields(2)) Then
                lrecRecord.ClaimGroupNo = ""
            Else
                lrecRecord.ClaimGroupNo = lrsExport.Fields(2)
            End If
            If IsNull(lrsExport.Fields(3)) Then
                lrecRecord.ClaimGroupSequence = ""
            Else
                lrecRecord.ClaimGroupSequence = lrsExport.Fields(3)
            End If
            Put #1, , Chr(13) & Chr(10)
            Put #1, lnRecord, lrecRecord
            lrsExport.MoveNext
        Loop
        Close #1

This puts 1 line into a text file and appends each record to the end of that line This question is still worth full points if you can help me to get headers and and records on separate lines.

Thanks,
Penny

added a field to the Type called EndOfRecord and set it equal to VBKeyReturn.  I solved it myself so I will not give points to anyone else.  Thanks,Penny