RE: RPGILE and TELNET

Thanks for the help I am looking at all the api's now boy this is going to
be a fun project.

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> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of bvining@VNET.IBM.COM
> Sent: Monday, October 19, 1998 4:26 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RPGILE and TELNET
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>
> Two approaches come to mind.  The first is, as others have pointed out,
> to use the sockets interfaces documented in the System API Reference.
> The second would be to use the Virtual Terminal APIs also documented in
> the same manual.
>
> The former will require a great deal of knowledge related to Telnet
> data flow; the latter will call for no knowledge of Telnet per se, but
> will require knowledge of the 5250 data stream (what you will get in the
> RPG program is the 5250 equivalent of the Telnet panel) and you will
> want a copy of the 5494 Functions Reference handy if you go this way.
>
> Bruce Vining
>
> >
> >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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