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Excuse me while I go bang my head against the wall. You just gave the single most compelling reason I've seen yet for externally described printer files. I wish I'd started using them 5 years ago instead of 2 years ago. HTML reminds me a great deal of CL in that it is easy to be passably good. The crunch of course is Microsoft's determination to hijack the internet and their decision to "extend" everything they touch. As a result I am finding HTML to be dangerous. But you talked me into it. Buy Brad's book, buy it off Midrange.com to keep David's efforts solvent. Thanks John. Will do. _______________________ Booth Martin Booth@MartinVT.com http://www.MartinVT.com _______________________ jpcarr@TREDEGAR.COM Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com 06/18/2000 12:27 PM Please respond to MIDRANGE-L To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com cc: Subject: Re: Web serving from the AS/400 Booth I bought Brad Stones's e-RPG book. Buy it! I just took a complicated P & L report program I did in RPGIV(it took a long time to write years ago). Within an hour I converted the WRITE to the printer file to out put to the Browser !!!! The users have the report online, in a Browser now !. What is incredible is that I leveraged the existing application designed to print, to output to the browser, which it was never intended to do. VERY VERY Easy !!! The users are thrilled. They think we are finally doing "Modern" programming(ie browser output). The inquiries and reports are now links off our intra-net. They do not know that I am still using an Archaic language like RPG. They probably think I am using some thing like Java, VB or some "Modern" language. Bottom line. RPG-CGI programs ROCK ! If you want to put stuff up quick, Reuse existing logic. It ROCKS. It will give you time to learn Java and other strategic directions and be productive (and look good to your managers) while you are learning. Next step? Double my rates as now I'm an Web Developer ! <VBG> John Carr EdgeTech P.S. buy a book on HTML and learn it. It's the CL of the internet. ----------------------------- Lets say I used the web server on a box at V4R4. Could I get data from the web page into an RPG program easily using something like Net Object Fusion to make the web pages? _______________________ Booth Martin Booth@MartinVT.com http://www.MartinVT.com +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +--- +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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