RE: Virtual Terminal APIs? -- MIDRANGE-L

I'd be happy to!


Carl J. Galgano
EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
540 Powder Springs Street, Suite C19
Marietta, GA  30064
(770) 422-2995 - voice
(419) 730-8212 - fax
mailto:cgalgano@ediconsulting.com
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AS400 EDI, Networking, E-Commerce and Communications Consulting and
Implementation

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Art Tostaine, Jr.
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 4:37 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Virtual Terminal APIs?
>
>
> That sounds like a great program.  Why not post it for all to see?
>
> I'd bet Carl Galgano would host it www.ediconsulting.com
>
> Art Tostaine, Jr.
> CCA, Inc.
> Jackson, NJ 08527
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of York, Albert
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 4:12 PM
> To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: Virtual Terminal APIs?
>
>
> 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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