RE: webfacing and competing products

["Shields, Ken" <kenshields@xxxxxxx>]

        Several tools available. My preference currently is Joe's.
        That not withstanding., are we not still looking at a block mode 
        screen?
        Most Windows applications I've used and seen, including all varieties
        of VB , are character mode..
        These two worlds have been colliding now, for over 20 years, and the 
        operational differences in the two methods, cause operator errors.
To Wit:
        I've seen, and had to intercede, in situations where, an emulation 
screen is worked on for a minute or two, the window is minimized, the user
works on other windows apps, maximizes the emulation window again, and then 
closes it.
        Voila!...no enter key was pressed, no update occurred.
        And I could probably show several other examples where the two worlds 
collide.
        The sooner there is a common interface developed by IBM the better
off we'll all be.
Ken Shields