RE: Update to TNAPI progam

It sounds as if TNAPI would work for you. Your program just has to be able
to anticipate the correct sequence of screens.

If you want to try it let me know and I will send you the source and the
documentation.

Albert York


        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Dan Bale [SMTP:dbale@samsa.com]
        Sent:   Friday, June 14, 2002 10:02 AM
        To:     midrange-l@midrange.com
        Subject:        RE: Update to TNAPI progam

        O.k., tell me if this is a fit (I have come up against this several
times):

        We have a rather large interactive program with complex logic (you
know, the
        ones whose author is long gone and for which there is no
documentation), in
        this case, an order delivery posting program.  A new program was
written for
        this client in their HazMat application, and this new program is
where
        deliveries will be recorded.  Instead of duplicating the human
effort in the
        older application's posting program, it would be ideal if we could
feed it
        the data as if a human were entering it in from the data that is
collected
        in the new HazMat program.

        Once upon a time, I took an existing interactive program, defined
but never
        opened the Workstn file, no-op'd all the Workstn format reads &
writes, and
        replaced those with data fed from a new input data file.  It worked,
but was
        not something I'd like to do on a regular basis.

        Dan Bale
        SAMSA, Inc.
        989-790-0507
        DBale@SAMSA.com <mailto:DBale@SAMSA.com>
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