Greg and others:

You have a point and my question now is "How, programmatically can one ship
data to and receive data from an interactive program running on a Unisys
box?".

And thanks for all the Telnet replies I've received already....

JP
> ----------
> From:         Stigers, Greg [And][SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent:         Friday, February 04, 2000 10:16 AM
> To:   'Penney, John'
> Subject:      RE: Telnet et al
>
> BTW, there are a number of ways to communicate from the 3000... so I'm
> wondering what Unisys speaks. I'm either having brain-cramps, and can't
> remember what DCP is, or just don't know. There is DCE, but that's an
> add-on
> product. There are sockets, both IPC and Berkeley. I would be surprised if
> Unisys does not support those. Or there's ODBC and JDBC. You might repost
> with the more general question of how to communicate programmatically to a
> Unisys environment from the 3000, and back.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Penney, John [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 12:45 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Telnet et al
>
>
> Greetings fellow HP3K'ers. Anyone have experience with Telnet? I'm trying
> to
> communicate programmatically to a Unisys environment from the HP thru DCP.
> I
> desire to be able to open a session on the HP, pass inquiries via Telnet
> to
> the Unisys and parse the 900 byte replies from the d/b on the Unisys. Any
> suggestions are appreciated. Basically, what's happening now is, after
> issuing the 'open xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa' on the HP, the DCP 'takes over' control
> even if you've redirected STDIN on the HP box. Strange, eh?
>
>
> JP and thanks
>