function getFile(filename)
  { oxmlhttp = null;
    try
      { oxmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
        oxmlhttp.overrideMimeType("text/xml");
      }
    catch(e)
      { try
          { oxmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
          }
        catch(e)
          { return null;
          }
      }
    if(!oxmlhttp) return null;
    try
      { oxmlhttp.open("GET",filename,false);
        oxmlhttp.send(null);
      }
    catch(e)
      { return null;
      }
    return oxmlhttp.responseText;
  }

function getData(param){
return getFile('data.txt').split(param+'=', 2)[1].split('\n', 1)[0]
}