RE: RPGILE and TELNET

[Tim McCarthy <TimM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I hope you're not looking for a simple solution. You will need to be
able to utilize sockets which you can't do directly with RPG but there
are third party products that provide API's to sockets functions - how
useful they'll be for this sort of application, I don't know. You'll
also have to understand the TELNET protocol which on the surface is
simple enough but in implementation can be tricky. Most TELNET client
programs are written in C and use a finite state machine (FSM) design
which I've never seen done in RPG before.   

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Belcher [SMTP:joel@ohanagroup.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 15, 1998 7:40 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: RPGILE and TELNET
> 
> When you telnet to another system it opens and connects to the socket
> port
> setup for telnet services in the IP services file (normally port 23).
> I
> don't know if you can use sockets support with ILERPG, but it might be
> worth
> checking into. I know you can do this with C and normally a special
> program
> is written for each system, like using ICF between two 400s.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Odum <bodum@magicnet.net>
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> Date: Thursday, October 15, 1998 6:07 PM
> Subject: RPGILE and TELNET
> 
> 
> >Is it possible to write a ILE RPG program to communicate with a Unix
> box
> >that only supports communications through a telnet session.  Can this
> be
> >done and if so how would you go about doing this.  Thanks in advance
> >
> >
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