RE: Virtual Terminal APIs?

["York, Albert" <albert.york@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robin,

I wasn't aware of the virtual terminal APIs that you mentioned so I
developed my own sockets API  which does what you are talking about using
telnet. I would be happy to send you a copy if you are interested.

Albert


        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Robin Coles [SMTP:robin.coles@dtn.ntl.com]
        Sent:   Thursday, March 30, 2000 8:31 AM
        To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
        Subject:        Virtual Terminal APIs?

        Hi,

        We've got a requirement to "front end" an existing interactive
program from
        an ERP system.  The program is big and ugly and getting it to run in
batch
        will be time consuming.

        In the past we've got round this sort of thing using VB and EHLLAPI
to poke
        keystrokes into the existing program, but the client wants an AS/400
only
        solution.

        Would we be able to do this sort of thing with the virtual terminal
APIs?
        If so, can anyone point me towards some example code.  I effectively
just
        want to feed keystrokes to an existing screen and do some basic
error
        checking, but in batch.

        Thanks
        Robin

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