RE: Homegrown v3r2 send internet email - POSSIBLE?

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> An alternative to the IBM site is our own Scott Klement's
>sockets tutorial:
>> http://klement.dstorm.net/rpg/socktut/
>
>I agree totally. But here's an example issue I ran into a
>while back... I needed to write a sockets server and the
>corresponding client. The problem: How to test? While
>developing one, you need the other working properly before you
>can test with confidence.

I write the server first and use telnet to test it.  I mention this only for
the archives, because:

>With the iCTC APIs, I could throw
>together basic client code in less than an hour in CL.

Nobody can complain about that! <grin>

>Scott's site is great as a tutorial. The iCTC
>APIs are a great tool set. No conflict and
>complementary value.

Absolutely!  It was a bit gruelling to convert the IBM C sockets examples to
RPG AND learn about how sockets works at the same time.  I am fortunate to
have a heavy communications background, but I sure wished I had some code to
tinker with.  Having working code from iCTC to dissect will undoubtedly help
understand Scott's tutorial.  For the archives, I should mention that the
RPG Redbook (see the FAQ)contains some good RPG examples.
  --buck