Re: [LINUX5250] Minor updates in CVS

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Scott Klement wrote:

> The approach that I was originally suggesting only entailed calling
> functions.  That approach should be accepted on every platform.

[snip]

> My suggestion, was to create a "class" (actually, a struct, since this is C)
> which contains pointers to each of these functions.   This would allow us
> to write modules (such as scs2ascii, scs2pdf, scs2ps).   To "attach" a
> different module would only require setting the pointers in the structure
> to different values.

I remember this discussion, but I didn't realize that you were referring
to this idea for doing the port.  I also didn't realize when you
mentioned this idea originally that you wanted lp5250d to call the
functions to be callable by lp5250d.  But now that I think about it makes
good sense.

I can't promise anything soon, but I'll get to work on this right away.
Hopefully things are working pretty well the way they are now (at least on
unix anyway).

James Rich
james@eaerich.com