I, too, am very interested in this article as it describes exaclty what I require, but do not have the time (at the moment) to learn how to do it fully. However, upon running the page, despite copying exactly (at least I'm fairly sure), I get the following error:

Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a0400'

Expected statement

/bpyoung/addtext.asp, line 14

option explicit

Bradley Young 5/29/2001 9:11:12 AM

This message is more for James R. Gregg. You might try the following to "clean up" your issue.
1. Make sure you end up with three files (form.html, addtext.asp and feedback.txt)
2. Place "Feedback.txt" into your C: directory, the other two into a directory in your wwwroot/inetpub folder. I placed mine in a folder named "CODE"
3. Make sure you have properly "shared" that folder for ASP purposes.
4. Access the files by typing http://localhost/CODE/form.html
5. Enjoy playing with the app.
I think your issue may have arisen out of not having your "ASP" file properly named. If you do it in notepad, you must make sure when you save your file that you select "all files" and not "text files" from the drop down box at th ebottom, otherwise your file could get saved like this 'addtext.asp.txt" which your computer will not process.

Good Luck

James Taylor 6/22/2000 3:08:22 PM

The article incorrectly states: "ASP scripts work only on Web servers running IIS or machines running Peer Web Services (PWS) 3.0." This is not accurate. Chili!soft has a product called Chili!ASP that allows ASP scripts to run on several flavors of windows. htttp://www.chilisoft.com

Dan M 6/15/2000 7:12:41 AM

Mark Minasi's Inside Out: "Active Server Pages Takes the Bite out of Forms" (February 2000) is a great article. What the article describes is exactly what I want to do. Will you send me the three files you reference in the article (form.html, addtext.asp, and feedback.txt)?
--­Cliff Airhart

Cliff Airhart 4/27/2000 3:53:44 PM

Here's a quick way to get form.html and addtext.asp: Go to Windows 2000 Magazine's online archive (http://www
.win2000mag.com/articles), scroll down and enter 7951 in the InstantDoc ID text box, and click Download the Code/Files in the Article Info box. Feedback.txt is just a blank file to start with, so you don't need to download it.
--­Mark Minasi

Mark Minasi 4/27/2000 3:53:44 PM

Did anyone else who tried this sample get the following error?
Technical Information (for support personnel)

Error Type:
Microsoft VBScript compilation (0x800A0400)
Expected statement
/addtext.asp, line 6
("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

I copied the text from the article verbatim.

I found the article very exciting because I have been trying to learn ASP for the past few weeks. I would really appreciate some clarification on this if possible.

Thank you.........I always read your magazine and learn new tricks all the time.

James R. Gregg 2/5/2000 8:54:52 PM