You're right, on the surface the code looks useless. But what i have before me is a a collection of macros written by various folks over a period of years in vbasic for applications in Microsoft Office. The little example executes a an excel macro that checks a directory for uploaded files, moves them to appropriate directories, then performs a variety of error checks and linguistic transliterations on the files and then sends them on to directories accessable to several databases (Oracle, Informix, MS Access based). But, i see what you're getting at. Perhaps i should provide some output (in appropriate html). I'll try it.
thanks