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

[Bob Stockler]

Phil Hausman wrote (on Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 08:19:02PM -0500):
[snip]

| 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

My answer is still the same.  ISFAIK. filePro's SYSTEM command does NOT
return anything of use to you within a processing table.

If you are on UNIX, look at the USER command that lets you establish a
2-way pipe between an OS program and a filePro process.

Bob

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