--- In blassic@yahoogroups.com, "cybermonkey342" <mmangold@...> wrote:

> Okay. That's what I wanted to know, thank you. But it is obviously not
> possible to return the value of a string?

Using the SHELL command no, but you can use POPEN. For example:

popen "ls" for input as #1
while not eof(#1)
line input #1, l$
print l$
wend
close #1

> By the way I posted at forum.basicprogramming.org how to create a PDF
> file with Blassic under Linux. ;-)
> The link: blassic forum entry
> <http://forum.basicprogramming.org/index.php/topic,738.0.html>

Nice trick :)