Re: pcAnywhere 9.0 -- MIDRANGE-L

Hmmm, yep, but I would have to revisit those programs to be sure and of course I
am BURIED at the moment (just a little deal for the Controller, President and VP
of Sales involving pricing <BG>).

Not sure if it would work for what you want but I'll try to dig something up
before the end of the week and if you haven't heard back from me, PLEASE hit me
again on Friday ! :-)

Chuck

"York, Albert" wrote:

> Chuck,
>
> Do you mean you have a way of automatically putting data on a workstation
> screen, as if the user typed it? If so I would be very interested in knowing
> how you  do it.
>
> Albert York
>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From:   Chuck Lewis [SMTP:clewis@iquest.net]
>         Sent:   Wednesday, June 20, 2001 6:35 AM
>         To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>         Subject:        Re: pcAnywhere 9.0
>
>         You can find stuff to break the boredom !
>
>         This is really getting off topic, but YEARS ago we had figured out
> hot to write
>         interactively to a screen when it was not general knowledge. We had
> a guy in doing some
>         training with a junior programer and he was another know it all (we
> were NOT mean, I'm
>         sure you understand the type of person I mean. There are very
> knowledgeable folks that
>         don't act like it, are helpful and share, and don't flaunt it in
> your face - the ones I
>         call know it all's are NOT like this...).
>
>         So we wrote a program to "eat" the screen that was up (no matter
> what screen) character
>         by character (could of course to a whole line). The junior
> programmer had been tipped
>         off and she excused herself and came to us and said "You're not
> gonna BELIEVE this but
>         the dude said it must have been something atmospheric !!" !!!
>
>         We about died, and then changed so that after it "ate" the screen,
> it popped up the word
>         A  T  M  O  S  P  H  E  R  I  C... Unfortunately that was intended
> for the next day and
>         he never came back...
>
>         Chuck
>
>         Jeff Crosby wrote:
>
>         > Chuck Lewis wrote:
>         >
>         > > They were a "know it all" bunch that
>         > > could really get on your nerves. So from time to time when we
> were in the computer
>         > > room and would notice them dialed in, we'd watch the type and
> the we'd backspace,
>         > > they'd type, we'd backspace. If you got the timing just right it
> was pretty funny
>         >
>         > ROTFLMAO!  This is fabulous.  I almost wish we used PC Anywhere
> just so
>         > I could do this to a couple of people. <g>
>         >
>         > --
>         > -Jeff
>         > The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily
>         > the opinion of my company.  Unless I say so.
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