totally missed this thread !
Shawn - Neaaaat udf !!! Even much more I like your limerick, you're a poet in disguise
This comes closer than anything to a shell->KiX piping solution I saw lately ! Ok, still some file handling , but we getting used to !

Clipboard abuse as container for shell output ??? would be really a workaround ... But I apprehend that would be not that simple

Jochen

btw ... what is REXX ???

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