Juan asks:

> Hello again Hp3000 Listers:
>
>  Can anyone recommend  products that enable HP3000 access over the internet?
>  Can any of these products circumvent the HP3000's logon process with a web
> front end  logon and then run block mode screens like Amisys? Is anybody
out
> there doing anything like this?
>
>  If our goal is to make select portions of Amisys available to our users
over
> the Web, can anyone comment on this approach vs. building web frontends
which
> handle the data via ODBC?

If you want to run block mode applications AND launch them from the web, I
only know of three solutions. One is the Java-based terminal emulator,
Javelin, from Minisoft. The second is similar, EnterView (recently renamed
"Reflection for the Web") from WRQ. The third is QCTerm (although we're not
quite ready yet).

Although all of the products are similar, there are differences. The
advantages of using either Javelin or Reflection for the Web are:

     o The products are Java-based, thus they can be run on any platform.
QCTerm can't. It is only Windows-based.

     o Javelin and Reflection support encrypted transmissions. QCTerm doesn't
at the moment, although that will change sometime in the next half year or so.

In contrast, the advantages of QCTerm are:

     o It's free.

     o It is a program that is wholly resident on the PC, thus it only has to
be downloaded once, rather than at the beginning of every use. As a
consequence, applications come up many (perhaps 100) times faster.

     o QCTerm is greatly more stable than a Java-based application.

     o But perhaps most importantly, QCTerm contains an internal graphics
generator called van Gogh that will completely change the face of a terminal.
The words "dull" and "boring" will never again be applied to a terminal, even
if you elect to keep your "legacy" code unchanged.

While we don't have the web launch facility completely incorporated into any
version of QCTerm that we can currently give out, I would nevertheless be
pleased to demonstrate it to you in its current state.

Prior to the demonstration, download the current version of QCTerm (Version
0.86) from:

     http://aics-research.com/qcterm

and religiously follow the instructions. Once done, signon to the test web
launch page at (using, for the moment, only IE5):

     http://aics-research.com/test.html

and then call me at (505) 524-9800 for just a few final instructions (you
will manually have enter some material into your PC's registry). All of this
will be completely automated in the next release, but that's two to three
weeks away by my estimates.

Wirt Atmar