In ArcView/ArcMap 9.2 and 9.3, I used to use ArcToolBox>samples>Data Management>Features>Create Features from Text File to read in XY(Z) data to a shapefile and the data could be displayed in the ArcMap data window. The ESRI textfile format is pretty strict but if you crossed all the i's and t's, it worked.
We now have ArcEditor 10.0 and ESRI "Help" says the Samples Toolbox is deprecated, and I should trawl thru the Geoprocessing Resource Centre (??). Can someone, hopefully from ESRI, please explain how to now import any XY(Z) textfile data to create features, or more preferably to read the original ESRI textfile format?
Like many other ESRI customers we have gone thru the licencing authorisation nightmare with Arc10, so what extra product licences might we need?
Many thanks,
Rob P