Accessing indexed cobol .dat files

[Dave Yuengert]

Is there an efficient way for vb to access and update cobol generated .dat
files?

[Bill Vaughn]

There are more ways than ever to manage files today. You can use simple Open
/Get/Input operations, the FileSystem object or if you can find an ODBC or
OLE DB driver/provider, use ADO to manage the files. The fact that these
files were generated in COBOL should make no difference what-so-ever--even
if they were encoded in EBDIC.

bv

"Dave Yuengert" <dyuengert@dodsongroup.com> wrote:
>
>Is there an efficient way for vb to access and update cobol generated .dat
>files?

[EricMarts]

I am tackling the same issue, and attempting to open up the file
using ADO (no connection), and using ? Provider

Does anyone have and example..?

Thanks

Eric

"Bill Vaughn" <billva@microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>There are more ways than ever to manage files today. You can use simple
Open
>/Get/Input operations, the FileSystem object or if you can find an ODBC
or
>OLE DB driver/provider, use ADO to manage the files. The fact that these
>files were generated in COBOL should make no difference what-so-ever--even
>if they were encoded in EBDIC.
>
>bv
>
>"Dave Yuengert" <dyuengert@dodsongroup.com> wrote:
>>
>>Is there an efficient way for vb to access and update cobol generated .dat
>>files?
>