With the language I use to work with (BBX), you could open a file handle to an external program and return the standard output of that command with each read. An example would be:

10 Open(1)"|DIR"
20 Read(1)a$
30 Print a$
40 Goto 20

By using the Pipe symbol as the first character of the file to be opened, it created a link to the file handle. Each Read of that channel would return one line of standard output from the DIR commnad.

Is there anything equivalent in VFP? I suppose I could do something like the code below, but I was hoping to be able to do it without a TempFile.

Run DIR >c:\TempFile
lnFile=Fopen("C:\TempFile")
Do While Not FEOF(lnFile)
   lcOutPut=FGet(lnFile)
   ?lcOutPut 
EndDO
FClose(lnFile)
Erase "c:\TempFile"

I realize this example is useless, but the DIR was easy way to show what functionality I am looking for.

TIA