Although Charles' suggestions are valuable, you might want to look
at something a bit simpler than writing client/server code, even if
some level of authentication is required.  You can easily write a
UNIX shell script that will stream a job on the 3000 using the FTP
SITE STREAM command or vt3k (or freevt3k from ftp.telamon.com,
depending upon your OS).

Regards,

Adam Dorritie
Easy Does It Technologies
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Charles Finley writes:

> Through sockets, anything is possible. However, there are
> some important issues such as authentication.  Assuming,
> authentication (security) is an issue, you can create a
> client/server application to do this. One way to do it is to
> write a listener (server) that exists on the e-3, use it to
> authenticate,  and have it dyamically create a command file
> which is then runs your job.  Another way to do it is to use
> a Web Server on the HP 3000 use cgi to launch the Job. The actual
> request is initiated  by a client piece on the Unix computer.

in response to Albert's question:

<snip>
> >Is there a way that a UNIX transaction can trigger an action
> > (e.g. stream a job) on my e-3?