RE: VisualAge for RPG

Hmm.. that's probably doable, but there would be some homework involved
getting the VA-RPG program to act as a CGI-BIN program properly.  From what
I was doing with RPG CGI on the AS/400 I seem to remember when the program
is called as CGI you get the post type parameters that you parse out, and
you build the web page dynamically that is to be returned.

The first part shouldn't be that difficult and should be able to be figured
out inside of a day or so.  But returning the dynamic web page, I'm not sure
where to even start looking in how to do that in VA-RPG.  Apache may be
expecting the CGI program to return the dynamic HTML as a stream, probably
std out if it does expect that.  Can/does VA-RPG programs write to STDOUT?
If it does, it should be fairly easy actually.

Regards,

Jim Langston

-----Original Message-----
From: Buck Calabro [mailto:Buck.Calabro@commsoft.net]

>>Does anyone know if or how a browser
>>user interface can be used with VARPG?

>The only way I could think of doing that
>would be to make your VA-RPG program an
>HTML server, albeit a small one.

Slick idea Jim; nice way to think outside the box.  I was going to reply to
the effect that VARPG creates PC programs, and not web pages, but you've
inspired me.  How about extracting the program logic into CGI-BIN programs?
Serve them up with Apache?

I don't think there's a way to take an existing VARPG program and have it's
output funnelled to a browser.
  --buck