ۥ-x@ -S           # Be e i i m m m m m o o o o o o  4 Crystal Reports Technical Document Subject: External Information files for VB Date: August 1, 1993 Versions: CRW for VB Description: To get Crystal Reports for Visual Basic to see external files, definition files are required. There is a section on Page 140 of the professional book 2 that explains the use of information files that are required with external files. A typical Information file would look like..... [dBASE IV] NDX1=C:\DATA\MYFILE1.NDX NDX2=C:\DATA\MYFILE2.NDX There is also a file on our BBS called PDBJET.ZIP. This file contains an updated DLL to replace the one in the Windows\System directory. The BBS # is 604 681-9516 N81 9600..1200 BAUD. Remarks: Information files are only required with Crystal Reports for Visual Basic. VBEXINFO.DOC ?I  tv68D^xz| %'=?I0*0*0*0* #!$2B +"/MO/ /BTimes New Roman Symbol&Arial5Courier New 1Courier\\\"hh%lej%s+External Information Files for Visual BasicTechnical Support DocumentInformation Link VB externalAllan D. McMordie Gurdeep Birdi