Fw: Accessing FP data from external programs (MS Assess)

[Phil Hausman]

My original email was:


> 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 to those who responded and sorry to those who I apparently confused. 
Let me try to make the question much simpler.   If I have a prc table that 
assigns a value to variable aa and that value is "smith", is there a way to 
have that value returned to the unix command line when the prc table is done 
running so that I would see the following:
# /appl/fp/dreport myfile -f myprc -s recordone
# smith

Thanks,
Phil