tn5250 Newbie Questions....

Hello,

I have a day job (I'm a comp sci at Wichita State) at a Kansas county gov
(Harvey) where lot of data is in an AS400. I've been using a commercial
client (WRQ Reflection), but would like to go Open Source. We need to get
raw files used by an ancient COBOL program over to our LAN. I would like
to hack tn5250 to simply do file transfers out of the AS400. My ulterior
motive is to get an entire app running on cygwin for distribution
throughout the state. (Another motive is to learn about a serious OS
project!) The COBOL program is CAMA, a popular package that tax appraisers
use, but has no known hooks for getting stuff into the "modern world". If
I can get it going for real-time data extraction, I hope to talk the state
of Kansas into looking at Linux (and OS) more seriously. As of now I'm
struggling with cygwin on NT, a fine thing, but not the real thing.... 

I would appreciate some hints, whatever you can spare, on how to subtract
out the visual (curses, etc.) and just bring over files. You might say,
"why not do ftp?" Well, I could, but a) I'd like more functionality b)
things here are bureaucratic and political, i.e., I can't just go up and
ask for ftp permissions, weird but true....


BTW, here's what happens to -16.1 on cygwin 1.1.8:

/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.     -g
-O2 -c
buffer.c
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -g -O2 -c buffer.c -o buffer.o
In file included from tn5250-private.h:110,
                 from buffer.c:34:
/usr/include/termcap.h:49: conflicting types for `tparm'
/usr/include/ncurses.h:733: previous declaration of `tparm'
make: *** [buffer.lo] Error 1

Any hints?

Larry Bottorff

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