RE: Printing PC documents from the AS/400

Roger --

I wrote such a "daemon" four years ago using the 16-bit PC Support DLL's and
VB 3.0.  It was COOL! I even included a macro language. It was really cool
to sit at an AS/400 terminal, type in a command, and watch Notepad fire up
on the PC across the room.

Peace,

-- Don

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Pence [mailto:rp@rogerpence.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 1999 11:10 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Printing PC documents from the AS/400


Bob--

>Has anybody come up with a brilliant method to trigger the printing of
>Word and Excel ducuments from within an RPG program?

Here is a slightly kludgy, but effective way to do what you want:

1. Install a low-cost FTP server ($50 max) on the target PC.
2. Write a CL program to use FTP to send a command to the PC. This command
could including passing a document name and perhaps a start-up macro in Word
or Excel.
3. Call the CL program from within your RPG program.

Another similar, but perhaps more robust method, would be to use data
queues. Have a PC "daemon" VB programming running polling the queue for
entries. Each entry is a PC command to execute, put their by whatever
appropriate process is on the AS/400 side.

rp

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