After some additional research I did find how to use OX = CREATEOBJECT('SAS.Application') and ox.search or ox.submit - can't recall right now but looks like it should not be too bad at all...
>>Has anyone connected to the SAS System with VFP? What I want to do is to have program run from VFP that kick off code in SAS and be able to return the result set to a VFP cursor.
>Hi,
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>it has been veeeery long since my last exposure to SAS (they were more into "base statistics" and data mining was just a concept) but AFAIR they could read and write dbf (the fox2x type). Since it is a separate process, returning a table should be possible, but not a cursor - just delete the table afterwards.
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>I've integrated stat packages a few times: IMHO exporting the result as a dbf
>works best on results like a matrix. Analyzing pure text result files *is* more
>work at the start, but often gives you greater flexibility,
>which translates into less work if you try many different scenarios.
>VFP (including foxtools for older versions) makes it easier than you might think.
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>my 0.02 EUR
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>thomas