RE: Convert EXFMT to API

Buck,

Always good to "hear" from a fellow tinkerer.  You may be right, that
there's no silver bullet...  ICBW.

(Also, see my reply to James Kilgore, upcoming.)

jt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Buck Calabro
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 10:20 AM
> To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
> Subject: Convert EXFMT to API
>
>
> >Over a year ago, Mike Cravitz (News/400 RPG guru)
> >posted the question something to the effect:  is
> >there some easy way to change an EXFMT to an
> >API call that allows client/server programming
> >and/or web programming?
>
> I have been tinkering with a custom preprocessor that scans for
> EXFMT, READ,
> WRITE, READC, etc. - it's easy enough to go find and replace them with API
> calls; it's less easy to determine the parameter list to pass to that API.
> The point is that it is possible to do, but there's some grunt
> work required
> to make it happen automatically.
>
> I think Joe Pluta has a finished tool that does this, and IBM's WebFacing
> does this under the covers, so there's no AS/400 compile involved.  Nathan
> Andelin has a different approach as do Brad Stone and Bob Cancilla.
>
> There's no silver bullet - WebFacing wants a new CPU and everything else
> requires programming changes.  It's up to each installation to figure out
> what will be in their best interest.
>   --buck
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