A USER question

[Walter Vaughan]

Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Anything sent from filePro to the USER program is sent to the USER
> program's stdin, plus a newline.  Anything sent by the USER program
> to its stdout, followed by a newline, can be read by filePro.

I sure hope I can make this work...

We're installing facetPhone tomorrow, and one of the goals is to query 
the facet_phone server to get DNIS (dialed number) digits as well as CID 
(Caller Identification) data.

The facet_phone server will be running on a freeBSD box, just not the 
server that we run filePro on.

The facet_phone server has a binary that is called like the following..
"fp_cid 200" (binary and extension) and it would return to standard 
output something similar to "<800-325-3535|SHERATON 
HOTEL|345-453-3434>". All of a sudden I am having a mental block on how 
to run a USER or SYSTEM command that would execute a binary on a remote 
machine and read in the std_output on that remote machine.

Surely I am not the first person to integrate filePro and facetPhone. 
Any hints or tips will probably allow me to sleep tonight.

--
Walter