Re: Re[2]: PC or Workstation

["Kevin Watkins" <kevinw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

maybe carl... but we get no error on strpco on our tcpip connections using
CA or just straight telnet.


-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Galgano <cgalgano@ediconsulting.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Friday, October 09, 1998 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: PC or Workstation


>Eric:
>That still would not tell you anything if the PC was running a terminal
>emulator.  the STRPCO only works if you are peer to peer connected via SNA.
>Carl
>Carl Galgano
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: eric.delong@pmsi-services.com <eric.delong@pmsi-services.com>
>To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
>Date: Friday, October 09, 1998 10:36 AM
>Subject: Re[2]: PC or Workstation
>
>
>|
>|     Hmmmm. I can't test it right now, but what happens if you run
>|     STRPCO (Start PC Organizer). I can't remember if it returns an
>|     error if you run the command on a workstation.
>|
>|     Eric DeLong
>|
>|
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>|Subject: Re: PC or Workstation
>|Author:  <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > at INET_WACO
>|Date:    10/8/98 5:01 PM
>|
>|
>|> Alison Herman wrote:
>|>
>|> > Hi to all.
>|> >> > Does anyone know of a way to tell (from either a CL or RPG prgrom)
>if
>|> > session you are running is on a PC or dummy workstation?
>|
>|There isn't a reliable way to determine if you have a PC attached, I
>|don't believe... You can get the device type from feedback area in
>|rpg but that only supplies type, which any reliable emulation program
>|would "have" to look like in order to work... You could do it through
>|hook & crook by keeping a table somewhere, but I suspect that's not what
>|you are looking for..... Unless you have a Large number of the same type
>|of dumb terminals and just a few pc's, then you could sort of keep track
>|that way... but that means "hard coded"...
>|
>|One other way comes to mind.......little messy but it would work.....
>|
>|Change all device names that are pc's to somthing you could check for
>|in a program,,, ie: PC001, PC002, etc...... That would depend on whether
>|you have naming standards for devices...... but you could then retrieve
>|the device name in the feedback area,,, scan for the "PC" portion and
>|do what ever it is you want to do.. if you find a PC......
>|
>|It ain't pretty... but it would work..........
>|
>|I will now go into my "flame" proof shelter for the night......
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