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title: "Text File Driver Programming Considerations | Microsoft Docs"
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# Text File Driver Programming Considerations
This section contains the following topics:  
  
-   [Setting Options Programmatically for the Text File Driver](../../odbc/microsoft/setting-options-programmatically-for-the-text-file-driver.md)  
  
-   [Text File Data Types](../../odbc/microsoft/text-file-data-types.md)  
  
-   [SQLGetInfo Returned Values for Text Files](../../odbc/microsoft/sqlgetinfo-returned-values-for-text-files.md)  
  
-   [Other Text File Driver Programming Details](../../odbc/microsoft/other-text-file-driver-programming-details.md)