Re: Hyperlinks in tn5250

[Jason Felice <jfelice@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin Rowe wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> I recently replied to a comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc posting about clicking on a 
>url on a 5250 screen and having it launch the browser. Client Access handles 
>this, and it makes a handy way to link graphics & scanned documents to 
>straight text on the screen. Is this sort of thing possible to implement into 
>tn5250 (or
> gnome-5250)?

If you want to try running tn5250 in a gnome-terminal, you'll notice
that gnome-terminal
automagically recognizes and makes clickable hyperlinks.  You can
Ctrl+click them to open
a browser (or the equivalent program for that type of link).  (NOTE:
This feature was an
addition for gnome 1.2, I think.)

This would probably require some mucking with termcap to make it work.

I'm not familiar enough with the gnome URL functions to implement this
in gnome-5250, and I
unfortunately still do not have enough time to work on it *sigh*

> 
> On a slightly related note - is it possible to trigger a command to run on a 
>linux box from a tn5250 screen? I've used RUNRMTCMD in the past, but that 
>requires Client Access. I was wondering about monitoring a folder for a 
>particular file (FTP'd across or via NFS) and running a command on arrival. Is 
>there a better, more secure way of doing this? The AS/400 FTP server has the 
>SYSCMD command to issue a CL command, but I'm not aware of a Linux equivalent.

The equivalent on Linux/*NIX is SITE EXEC, but some ftp servers disable
it, and most ftp
servers don't allow it by default - you'll have to look at the docs for
whatever ftp server
you have installed (usually wu-ftpd).

The better way to do this, though, is by using the AS/400's REXEC
command - I've never
actually tried it, but this is the tried-and-true 'NIX way to execute
commands on remote
machines.  You'll have to configure the Linux box to allow remote
commands from that
particular address.

> 
> Regards, Martin
> 
> ==
> martin@dbg400.net / jamaro@firstlinux.net
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>environments. Other utilities available.
> 
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Good luck,
-Jason M. Felice
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