Re: PC XMODEM Async comm to AS/400

Neil:
Don't know if this would be self serving, but I have written some code to do
this from the PC to the 400 via the ASCII controller.  It is based on the
DOS PC support but seems to work fine to our newer RISC box.  Let me know if
you are interested.
Carl

At 08:21 PM 5/13/97 -0400, Neil Palmer wrote:
>I'm hoping someone out there has an answer to this.  It's probably not
>that complicated, but if anyone has already done this, knows someone who
>has, or knows of an available software comm solution that can be
>purchased to do this, I would appreciate knowing.
>
>Present application (distributed at over 200 locations) has a PC DOS
>based application that dials up to a Unix box and using Async XMODEM 
>comm uploads flat files.  An AS/400 then runs a regular job that does
>SLIP TCP dial to the Unix box and FTP's any new data back to the 400 for
>processing.  The PC application can't really be changed (so having them
>do a SLIP TCP dialup to the 400 and FTP the file directly is out) due to
>the problems of getting it distributed to all required sites (half of
>which have 386 or older PC's) - but what we would like to do is
>eliminate the Unix box and have the PC's call the 400 directly and
>upload the data.
>It would have to handle the communications from the PC without changing
>the PC application.
>
>Any ideas ?
>
>TIA
>
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