Re: Free AS/400 software on the Interent--followup -- MIDRANGE-L

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Steven Easton
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> From: Bob Cozzi <BobCozzi@ibm.net>
> To: 'Midrange News List' <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> Subject: Free AS/400 software on the Interent--followup
> Date: Monday, June 16, 1997 4:36 PM
> 
> Hey everyone.
> 
> About a month or less ago, people were mentioning that it would be nice
to 
> put some stuff up on a web site for free downloading. A kind of "Q38 BBS"

> for the 90s.
> 
> So my idea is as follows:
> 
> Using my web site, (www.rpgdev.net) we create a special page, something 
> like:
> 
> www.rpgdev.net/softlib
> 
> There we store .ZIP files of AS/400 source code. The source code would
have 
> to be complete. It would also always have to include a make/build
routine. 
> That is a CL program that, when called, created the tool for the 
> programmer. I think this is necessary as we get more complicated with RPG

> IV, ILE and modules.  Nothing fancy, just a simple CL program to create 
> first, then call it, then run the tool.
> 
> There would also have to be a text file or HTML of helptext information. 
> Nothing great, just simple, this is what it does, this is how to use it 
> stuff.
> 
> I will maintain the page, submissions would come to me via us mail on 
> diskette. I just want to prevent that one dummy sending me 1 or 2 meg 
> e-mail messages with a bunch of compiled crap in it, so snail-mail it is.
> 
> I will maintain an HTML index of the entries, on the page itself. The
idea 
> being, a table with left-side column containing the tool's ZIP file name 
> (point, click and download), the center column containing the size,
OS/400 
> rel req (if any) and the third column containing descriptive information.
> 
> There would be no access fee/charge or password. You'd just be able to
get 
> it by pointing your web browser to it.
> 
> The only "catch" is that it would really have to be PC-based .ZIP files, 
> and not AS/400 objects. It gets a bit too complex to deal with AS/400 
> objects. This means that except for unusual circumstances, only ZIP files

> containing source code are to be placed on the page. PC-based 
> applications/programs are exempt.
> 
> Any takers?
> 
> 
> Bob Cozzi
> Bob@rpgdev.net
> http://www.rpgdev.net
> 
> 
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