>>Are there any tricks that would allow me to dump output (text) to the Command Window?
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>From a program you can do
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>activate window 'command'
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>keyboard 'hello'
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>From outside you can modify the file _command.prg
That can be done from code called in the startup code, as defined in one of the options in config.fpw. Here's a line from my vfpstart.prg:
STRTOFILE(TEXTMERGE("*--<<DATETIME()>> - <<SYS(0)>> ")+0h0d, HOME()+"_command.prg",1)