Peter,

I don't think you can do that with WSH. Most likely you'll have to emulate mainframe terminal in VFP or something like that.

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>Customers can be demanding. First it's writing stuff to a mainframe window.
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>Now they'd like me to read from one.
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>I've looked at WSH ReadLine and ReadAll, but can't for the life of me figure out how to implement it.
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>"The ReadAll method returns a string. The StdIn, StdOut, and StdErr properties and methods work when running the script with the CScript.exe host executable file only."
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>Anyway, oShell = CREATEOBJECT(...) does not expose the StdIn and StdOut properties, so is this at all possible?