RE: Interface with Word -- MIDRANGE-L

Word is a great solution for this, but I'll add one caveat. The Client
Access rexec daemon won't work for this application in an NT environment. In
95/98/ME the daemon runs as a application in the user space, but in the NT
world it runs as an NT service. Ever have a service attempt to open a GUI
application? Unless the application has been designed to accommodate this
(word hasn't) it doesn't work . 

We ended up writing a small PC application to handle to communications for
us. Nice icon in the icon tray, better error handling and logging and a
consistent interface between 95/98/ME and NT/W2K. Maybe 50 lines of VB on
the client and 50 lines of RPG on the 400. 

-Walden

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Townsend [mailto:patownsend@patownsend.com]
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 4:21 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Interface with Word


Ashley,

I noticed that I can launch Word and Wordpad from a Windows command line, or
from the Start, Run option. I put in the command line like this:

   winword c:\alliance\EDI_Roadmap.doc

And, voila! It launches Word and opens the document I specified as the first
parameter. So, it seems to me that it should be possible to launch this from
the AS/400 using the Rexec client command RUNRMTCMD. You would just need to
specify the IP address or DNS name of the PC and the command line to
execute. You'll also need an Rexec daemon program on the PC. Client Access
has one, and Denicomp has one.

HTH,
Patrick
---
IBM AS/400 communications, FTP automation, and eCommerce
software and consulting services.

http://www.patownsend.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ashley Waters" <awaters@frostyacres.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 10:29 AM
Subject: Interface with Word


> My shop is basically all RPGIII, RPGIV and green screens. Each user has a
PC
> desktop running Microsoft products and  Rumba as the emulator on a TCP/IP
> network. I am looking for away a user can key a large volume of text and
tie
> it to an RPG program via a CMD key. We currently have a database that has
a
> field devoted to the text and we display that back to them with RPG. As
you
> know that is cumbersome and does not work very well in our case because we
> need spell check, different fonts and special formatting.
>
> I am looking for some option that might interface with Microsoft's Word in
> such a way that the user can hit a CMD key the program can check a table
and
> retrieve the appropriate word document and display it back to the user. I
> like the idea of Word because my users are  familiar with it. However, If
> there are other products that are GUI base that will work I am interested
in
> those also. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Ashley Waters
> Vice President of Information Services
> Frosty Acres Brands, Inc.
> (678) 356-5474
> Fax: (678) 356-0074
> awaters@frostyacres.com
>
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