RE: Dumb Terminal or Emulator

James,

I *knew* when I was typing the question that I was going to hear from you in
this very vein! I thought (for just a moment) of changing "dumb" to "device
not otherwise able to invoke a browser session" or something else as
verbose.

I'll try to be more precise in future queries to the List. Nah... .-)

Jerry C. Adams
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Lampert
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 10:47 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Dumb Terminal or Emulator

Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc. wrote:

One thing I don't understand about this is that code you write for a
5250 session does not run on the terminal whether it is a dumb
terminal or a PC. If you want to go out to a web service, it isn't
the terminal doing it, it is the RPG program. So that should still
work regardless of the terminal type. Of course if you want to do a
RUNRMTCMD or STRPCCMD, then you can simply monitor for a message in
the CL program, as someone already said.

And may I point out that since we're talking about 5250 devices, NOT
Lear ADM-3s or other "glass teletypes" (nor even the much more advanced
ADM-1s, Datamedia 1500s, Teleray 10s, or Dec VT-100s), your terminals
can hardly be called "dumb."

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