Can I access another application's files or variables?

[mfleming]

Hi all,

I've been playing around a bit with application variables and files using the AVars and AFiles commands. I was wondering if it is possible to access files or variables defined in another application. It would be most useful if applications could share or exchange files. The appName dot objectName convention doesn't seem to work for the above commands.

The only alternatives I can think of for the moment would be to store the value of a variable or file in a built-in variable like L1. Or perhaps each application could have a utility function to read or write a local file. Neither alternative quite matches what I'd like to do for sharing information across applications.

Any suggestions (or pointer to hidden functions) anyone?
~Mark