RE: Printing PC documents from the AS/400

[Ken Slaugh <ken.slaugh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have wrote a program in VB that 'Shells' a Windows program based on an
entry in a DataQ, including command line arguments. An AS/400 program
puts an entry in the queue and the PC runs the job. It's simple and very
effective.

Ken Slaugh
Senior Programmer/System Analyst
AS/400 Professional Network Administrator/MSE
Specialist - Client Access/400
Chouinard & Myhre, Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schenck, Don [SMTP:Don.Schenck@WL.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 1999 9:43 AM
> To:   'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject:      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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