RE: File access in 4GL

Posted in 2000

Gabbard, Mike W. — Mon, 6 Mar 2000 08:48:20 -0600 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

How about setting up the file in a unload/load format, "|" delimited. Then just load the file into a temp table within your 4gl program? Wesley Gamble wrote: > I need to get access to the output of an operating system command in > 4GL. I see that I can use the "RUN" statement to execute the system > command, however this only returns the OS status to me. So I figure I > can have my 4GL process spawn a process to update a file, and then I can > read that. > > Is there any way for me to read a file from within a 4GL executable?