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

[Nancy Palmquist]

Phil Hausman wrote:
> My original email was:
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>>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.
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> 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 
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Could you make "SMITH" the output of a output process?  Think in terms 
of report and then | (pipe) it to the next input.  Just a thought.

Nancy

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