RE: Sockets and Time Clocks?

Look at http://klement.dstorm.net/rpg/socktut/index.html.

Regards,

Gerry Tucker
Senior Analyst Programmer
Technicolor
Wembley, UK
Tel: +44(0)208-900-6555




>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: Benny Hill [mailto:benny_hill3@xxxxxxxxx]
>>  Sent: 09 July 2003 14:33
>>  To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>>  Subject: Re: Sockets and Time Clocks?
>>  
>>  
>>  In article <002c01c3460b$7defd4c0$6401a8c0@xxxxxxxx>, 
>>  as400bill@xxxxxxxxxxxx says...
>>  > The equipment used is a Linx V Data Collection terminal 
>>  using TCP/IP. Has
>>  > anyone out there used Scott's socket programs in RPG ILE 
>>  to connect to one
>>  > of these?
>>  > 
>>  > Thanks all
>>  > Bill H
>>  
>>  Hi Bill,
>>  
>>     I have used Scott Klement's socket tutorial to connect to a web 
>>  server.  The example I found allowed you to give the 
>>  program a URL (or IP 
>>  address) and a port number (80 in my case).
>>  
>>     Connecting to another TCP/IP device should work exactly 
>>  the same way.
>>  
>>     Basically you open the socket, connect to the IP address and it 
>>  transmits data to you.  The folks who make the Linx V Data 
>>  Collection 
>>  terminal will have to give you the specifics of how that data is 
>>  formatted.
>>  
>>     Unfortunately I no longer have the tutorial or the 
>>  little test program 
>>  I wrote.  You can probably find them on the 'net with a 
>>  little searching.
>>  
>>  Good luck!
>>  
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