RE: [LINUX5250] Windows compiling

["Marc-Antoine Ruel" <maruel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry for my uncomprehension, but what do you exactly mean by piping?

If you means redirecting win32 text output to a deamon (another process and/or 
another computer), use a named pipe. It's quite simple to use.
GetStdHandle/SetStdHandle does the job if you want to redirect text output. In 
C, we need to update a cached value (_stdout) but it's simple.
Look for "Named Pipes" in MSDN

It's always simpler to write than to code :)

M-A

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Klement [mailto:klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 18 juillet, 2003 13:02
To: Linux 5250 Development Project
Subject: Re: [LINUX5250] Windows compiling


On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Justin Dearing wrote:
>
> Looking to compile the software on windows, looking for directions.
> what compiler, do I need glib, etc.

There's a file called README.txt in the win32 subdirectory of the TN5250
distro that explains the compiling, etc.   If it's out of date, please let
me know.

> Looks like from the sourcecode below:
>
>      if (tn5250_config_get(config, "outputcommand")) {
>          len = strlen(tn5250_config_get(config, "outputcommand"));
>          temp = g_malloc(len+1);
>          strcpy(temp, tn5250_config_get(config, "outputcommand"));
>          if (!strncasecmp(temp, "printer:", 8)) {
>               strncpy(devname, &temp[8], MAXDEVNAME);
>          }
>          else if (!strncasecmp(temp, "file:", 5)) {
>               strncpy(devname, &temp[5], MAXDEVNAME);
>               isfile=1;
>          }
>          else {
>               strncpy(devname, temp, MAXDEVNAME);
>          }
>          g_free(temp);
>      }
>
> Taken from lp5250d-win.c, that there is still no way to pipe print text
> to a command via outputcommand=command:"perl -e \"while (<>) {print
> $_}\"" Obviously all this would do is print text to a command prompt.,

No, all that would do is print an EBCDIC SCS formatted data stream to
the command prompt :)

> but lets say I wanted to do something like have anything "printed" to
> this lp5250d instance be emailed to my cell phone, and have a msgq
> monitor.

I haven't been able to make pipes work in Windows.  It would be nice to
be able to use scs2ascii/scs2pdf/scs2ps as seperate programs like we do
in Unix, but I have no idea how to make that work nicely.

I'd love it if you could make pipes work, and submit your changes to the
project!

> Yes I would like to use a unix box to handloe this, but If
> this were an IDEAL world I would be allowed to setup SMTP on all the
> as/400s at work and have the monitor program email me stuff via snddst
> or that IBm supplied freeware ezmailer.

Personally, if it were me, I'd write an RPG program to monitor a message
queue, and then write a simple sockets program to connect to a SMTP server
(doesn't have to be on your '400, could be at your ISP or on your LAN,
etc) and just send the messages that way.

But, if using lp5250d for this means that you'll add pipe support to the
win32 version, I'm all for it! :)