Accessing FP data from external programs (MS Assess)

[Phil Hausman]

Good afternoon,
As many have expressed, I'd like to be able to use another development tool 
to access filePro data, but it looks like ODBC in that direction is way off 
in the future, if at all.   Since many development tools include the 
functionality to issue a system command, is it feasible to issue a system 
command to, for example, run dreport with a prc table that accepts a 
parameter (ie account number), reads that record, and returns something (ie 
name) to the command line.   filePro is on Unix.    Does anyone currently do 
this, or something similar?    Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Phil Hausman (no relation to Robert - different spelling)