Re: Client Access/400 3 for DOS

Hello,

Am 06.07.2020 um 21:05 schrieb Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx>:

When I do a test connect, the command STARTRTR is issued in a batch file. This one gives the error "5240 The Token-Ring adapter is not present". See screenshot at https://leela.pocnet.net/~poc/ca.jpg

Progress! After installing the LAN support program (more code to stay in memory, loaded via config.sys) and reinstalling the client, I was surprised to see drive letter I: being redirected to QDLS. From there, the startpcs.bat wants to start additional programs. Which apparently aren't there. I guess, the 5250 emulator is supposed to be there, also.

So I analysed the bat file to start the whole mess, just to see, that some stuff is expected to be found in I:\QIWSFL2 (/QDLS/QIWSFL2 on the AS/400). Copied the whole folder over and it works! See https://leela.pocnet.net/~poc/ca.jpg for the gruesome look. :-)

I still need to find out how to change the CA-Codepage to 273, so I can change the DOS codepage back to 850.

This whole mess isn't exactly userfriendly, as I remember other PC-DOS software of the era to be. Cryptic command line parameters, not easily locatable documentation which EXE to start for doing a task, etc.

Does anybody know about a PDF version of the Client Access/400 for DOS manual?

Of course, Google turns up no helpful stuff. Anybody remembers this ancient stuff?

Typical case of "try harder". :-)

:wq! PoC

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