RE: webfacing and competing products

Steve wrote:

>Nathan,

>I think the problem with screen scraping is that the new end user
>application is limited to the data provided by the host application that is
>being scraped from.  The subfile record may only contain customer name and
>not customer number.  Also, the subfile records may only contain a page of
>the records that the user is interested in working with. ( how can the user
>sort on order amount when the display buffer being scraped from only
>contains 10 of the 100 orders of the customer? )  Whether the data is
>scraped from a screen or from a pre dspf buffer, it still has the same

That is an excellent point Steve, I hadn't even thought of that but should
have. I remember "days long ago" being told to write subfiles that only
loaded a partial data set to speed display time. Not so much an issue with
the faster processors now, but a lot of code is no doubt that way !

Chuck