Can I access an ASCII file via Forms 4.0 under Windows?

Hi - I'm stumped and would appreciate your help. We're developing an application running on a PC/Windows client with Oracle 7.0 on an HP9000 server. We need to retrieve some information from an ASCII file, enhance it and use its data to update Oracle tables. We originally intended to use SQL*Loader to parse the file and build a temporary table which we planned to access via PLSQL out of Forms.  

    I just discovered, the hard way, that SQL*Loader won't run under Windows unless I run
Windows/Forms in Standard Mode. This won't work in our application.  

    Does anyone know of a way to read the contents of an ASCII file into a Forms 4.0 application? There are at least three ways I could do it with Powerbuilder but I can't find a single one for Forms.  

    It certainly seems that you'd want a client-based tool like Forms to be able to access files so I assume there's a way.  

Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.  

                        Bob Clark Received on Tue Jun 07 1994 - 06:54:24 CEST