<html>
<body>
<p>This is the first five characters from the text file:</p>
<%
Set fs=Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set f=fs.OpenTextFile(Server.MapPath("testread.txt"), 1)
Response.Write(f.Read(5))
f.Close
Set f=Nothing
Set fs=Nothing
%>
</body>
</html>