i will try to explain what i'm trying to do in more detail.....
let say i have some textboxes and i save the info enter into those textboxes to a txt file called ???.txt......when i view the info,which will appear inside the textboxes.....if i no longer want that record, i want to delete it using a command button.....

sorry about not being clear before.....
thankz everyone for your replys.......