Accessing FP data from external programs (MS Assess)

[Bob Stockler]

Phil Hausman wrote (on Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 04:24:46PM -0500):

| 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.

ISFAIK, the filePro SYSTEM command doesn't return anything
useful to a processing table for what you're looking for.

However SYSTEM can be used to write tmp files that can be
read by filePro I/O commands, and then removed when done.

I hope this helps, but think it may be the long way around
Robin's (RobinHood's ?) barn.

Bob

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