RE: graphical display question

["Shaw, David" <dshaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark,

To the best of my knowledge, the ONLY 5250 emulator that could run as a 5292-2
graphics terminal was the old DOS PC Support emulation.  To make it work
required an IBM 8514/a graphics adapter or a third-party card FULLY emulating an
8514/a, plus several LARGE device drivers that essentially made the PC unable to
run any other non-trivial program at the same time.  I had it working at one
time, probably about 1992 or '93.

If I were you, I'd forget GDDM with 5250 emulation and write a client/server app
of some sort to do the job.  I'm sure the smart folks on this list will hash
through the pros and cons of the various ways to do that - my advice is that you
listen to what they have to say, then pick the one that you want to learn the
most. <grin>

Dave Shaw
Spartan International, Inc.
Spartanburg, SC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark A. Manske [mailto:mmanske@minter-weisman.com]
> 
> We have client access, telnet, rhumba, and mochasoft, I want 
> to use GDDM to
> display on the RPG/ILE screen a large font letter, maybe some 
> other stuff,
> GDDM keeps telling me that the display device must be a 5292 mod 2.
> Is there a way around this, or is there a better solution..  
> we are on V4R4
> 
> Here is what we will be attempting..
> 
> PC with a scanner pass-thru to keyboard, hooked on to the 
> as/400, screen
> would
> input the upc bar code, display in a large font to the user 
> the "bin" to put
> the
> product in. blah, blah blah..../ pc hooked up through ethernet.
> 
> hardware wise is the way we are going, "could" just out put 
> character to
> "look"
> like the bin, but that is pretty cheesy..
> 
> My other software keeps re-configuring my virtual devices to 3179-2 or
> 3477-FC;
> the as/400 will not keep my dev at a 5292-2 as I created it.
> 
> Any other ideas;  that would not scare my boss (java, vrpg, 
> c++, VB, xml,
> html, or net.data)
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