This article illustrates some great uses of the File System Object. It shows how to choose a drive to search, and then builds a listbox of all the folders on that drive. Choose a folder and it builds a listbox of all the files in that folder. Choose a File and it will display it in the browser or prompt you to save the file to your hard drive.

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The author writes "ASP has the ability to write .html or any other text based documents directly to a web server (You need to write the text output to a directory that has write authority). This enables the instantaneous publication of user input without the need for uploading files from a PC." This example code shows how to write text based documents to a server using ASP.

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This article is first of a series of articles about working with drives, folders and files using ASP. In this article we'll learn how to get hold of Drives collection which FileSystemObject provides us, then we'll use this handle to display a list of all drives connected to our computer with their detailed info. These drives may be fixed hard disks, removable drives like floppy drives, CD-ROM drives or even network drives. We'll then use the handle to a drive to access root folder for that drive and then display all the sub folders and files in that drive. We'll build our application in such a way that we can move around different drives and folders and read different files.

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This article is number three in a series of articles I wrote about uploading and displaying binary data with ASP. The first article was about Uploading binary data to the database, second was on Displaying binary data from the database and the third one ( this one ) is going to be on 'Uploading files to the server hard disk using pure ASP'.

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This example code demonstrates how to link and display text files within a single document in ASP. Using the title of the text files as hyperlinks, when clicked the file name, the full contents of the document will be displayed. Very useful for making copybooks and file layouts available online.

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Firstly, it demonstrates the use of the FileSystemObject, and secondly it shows how powerful regular expressions can be. I learnt all I know about regular expressions from Microsoft's online documentation and a lot of experimentation!

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The author writes "A CSV (Comma Separated Values file sometimes referred to as a flat file) is essentially a text file that has a comma delimiter between the table values and a unique line for each observation. While this is usually a means by which data is transferred from one database to another by itself can be used as input to an asp document." This example will show how to take virtually any CSV file and write it to an html table using ASP.

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This short example will allow you to dynamically create "static" html documents from an Access data on your web server using Active Server Pages. Basically after reading the contents of the db, instead of writing output to the browser it is written to the server.

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Why should you let visitors upload pictures onto your Web site?

Well lets take a couple of examples. People renting their holiday homes might like to display a picture of the property on a Web site. News sites might like to allow people to send them pictures of events in their area. Ideally we would like the visitor to be able to upload these pictures themselves using their standard Web browser.

Unfortunately images come in thousands of different formats, shapes, colors and sizes; almost none of which will mesh in with your beautifully designed site. This article is about how we can best solve this problem. To do this we will have to search down into the depths of HTML and ASP.

Digging down, the first gem we find is HTML upload. This is based around a standard, but vastly underused, HTML form element. When you put it into a form on a Web page it allows you to choose a file. When you submit the form, the file is sent to the Web server. What could be more perfect?

The second gem we find is the vast range of Active Server Page Extensions that exist on the market. These ActiveX controls add extra functions to the standard Active Server Page repertoire and can be accessed from simple scripting languages such as VBScript. The ASP Extension we will use here is the ImageGoo (http://www.websupergoo.com) Web graphics toolkit as it incorporates everything we need in one package.

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As you probably know, Microsoft has one free DLL, namely CPSHOST.DLL, with which you can upload files. It requires a folder with write permissions since it is there where the file(s) will be posted (saved) when they arrive to the Web server (IIS). Another drawback is that you are focusing only on file uploading and not on other uploading possibilities. Remember, when you upload a file, you can also upload (post) any other inputs, such as the input file, input checkbox, input password, and input image, etc. And you can check their value just as if you were posting an ordinary form.

So when you upload a file you are really posting a form's content to the browser by using a different encoding type (enctype) in your form. That encoding is specified as enctype="multipart/form-data" as an attribute of your form.

The specification in RFC 1867 "Form-based File Upload in HTML" describes the mechanism by which a file may be uploaded from a Web browser to the server.

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