Free AS/400 software on the Interent--followup

Hey everyone.

About a month or less ago, people were mentioning that it would be nice to 
put some stuff up on a web site for free downloading. A kind of "Q38 BBS" 
for the 90s.

So my idea is as follows:

Using my web site, (www.rpgdev.net) we create a special page, something 
like:

www.rpgdev.net/softlib

There we store .ZIP files of AS/400 source code. The source code would have 
to be complete. It would also always have to include a make/build routine. 
That is a CL program that, when called, created the tool for the 
programmer. I think this is necessary as we get more complicated with RPG 
IV, ILE and modules.  Nothing fancy, just a simple CL program to create 
first, then call it, then run the tool.

There would also have to be a text file or HTML of helptext information. 
Nothing great, just simple, this is what it does, this is how to use it 
stuff.

I will maintain the page, submissions would come to me via us mail on 
diskette. I just want to prevent that one dummy sending me 1 or 2 meg 
e-mail messages with a bunch of compiled crap in it, so snail-mail it is.

I will maintain an HTML index of the entries, on the page itself. The idea 
being, a table with left-side column containing the tool's ZIP file name 
(point, click and download), the center column containing the size, OS/400 
rel req (if any) and the third column containing descriptive information.

There would be no access fee/charge or password. You'd just be able to get 
it by pointing your web browser to it.

The only "catch" is that it would really have to be PC-based .ZIP files, 
and not AS/400 objects. It gets a bit too complex to deal with AS/400 
objects. This means that except for unusual circumstances, only ZIP files 
containing source code are to be placed on the page. PC-based 
applications/programs are exempt.

Any takers?


Bob Cozzi
Bob@rpgdev.net
http://www.rpgdev.net


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