Re: asdbget

On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 02:28:13PM -0600, Dan Hrabarchuk wrote:
> I saw mention of a utility called asdbget on this mailing list. It can
> download data from an as/400 to a linux machine. Unfortunatly I have been
> unable to locate it. Does anyone have a URL to the homepage of this utility?
> If it does not exsist where can I get the information to develop my own?

Hmm, I thought I had put it out before, but I guess not.  For the time being,
it is on my personal homepage : http://www.nacs.net/~jasonf

I'e been working with Sean Porterfield (well, mostly not working, just
observing bugs really), expect a new release soon.  Right now there are some
character translation issues relating to not having an understanding of
translation maps like 5250 does, and an XML format issue which may not be an
issue but a Perl XML::Parser bug.  That and an issue with different releases
of OS/400 have different record lengths for DSPFFD output, which we use to 
translate the file.

Now that I've discouraged you from using it <g>, try it, see if it works,
and feedback is much appreciated.

Note that an older utility (which was hacked to create asdbget) called
as4002unix exists and can be downloaded from Mike's homepage.  It is less
prone to error right now, but you must write an ftp script to download the file
manually, and you must supply a file describing the format - this is what
asdbget is trying to alleviate.

-Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice

> 
> thanks
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