strdatei="c:\test\test.txt" Const ForReading = 1 Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objTest = objFSO.GetFile(strdatei) If objTest.Size > 0 Then Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strdatei, ForReading) strText = objFile.ReadAll wscript.echo strText objFile.Close end if