Convert EXFMT to API

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Over a year ago, Mike Cravitz (News/400 RPG guru)
>posted the question something to the effect:  is
>there some easy way to change an EXFMT to an
>API call that allows client/server programming
>and/or web programming?

I have been tinkering with a custom preprocessor that scans for EXFMT, READ,
WRITE, READC, etc. - it's easy enough to go find and replace them with API
calls; it's less easy to determine the parameter list to pass to that API.
The point is that it is possible to do, but there's some grunt work required
to make it happen automatically.

I think Joe Pluta has a finished tool that does this, and IBM's WebFacing
does this under the covers, so there's no AS/400 compile involved.  Nathan
Andelin has a different approach as do Brad Stone and Bob Cancilla.

There's no silver bullet - WebFacing wants a new CPU and everything else
requires programming changes.  It's up to each installation to figure out
what will be in their best interest.
  --buck