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From: Schenck, Don <Don.Schenck@pfizer.com> > Ouch! > > (I was, in fact, being sarcastic with the "ain't it great"). > > Willing to tell what the app did? > See post to Bruce and also the following (private) post to Tim: 1) a Palm with a plug-in modem can dial up a telephone line. 2) on the other end of that line is a modem on an AS/400 3) the Palm application invokes the Palm FTP client to transfer a (number of) Palm databases to the AS/400 as they are. That is: a pure binary transfer. 4) the AS/400 gets the Palm files, a program on the AS/400 translates the Palm databases into AS/400 physical file members, processes them and possibly constructs an AS/400 database file member as result. That member is converted to a Palm database on the AS/400. 5) the Palm ftp client "gets" the resulting Palm database. 6) the whole ftp transfer is controlled by a small script on the Palm. As I said, the whole thing turned out to be a lot less easy than everybody said (oh, the Palm is easy, the Palm is cool, piece of cake, etc, etc)
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