Using your favourite terminal emulator you can do the following .... 

One of our team has developped a script that allows the HP to create a
PDF file, then FTP it to our file servers and then automatically open
the PDF file using acrobat... 

Here's a simpler example where a file is opened via wordpad..

<clip> 

#         TERM = hp          <-- REFLECTION
#         TERM = 70092       <-- MINISOFT
 
if TERM = "hp" then
   # Using REFLECTION, so we open the file directly. NOTE, if '.txt'
file types
   # are not associated with WORDPAD on the users PC, then the result
will be
   # unpredictable. NOTEPAD, for example will have a problem reading
some
   # file types accurately.
   setvar INVOKE_TEXT "SHELL START !V_FTP_TARGET"
else
   # Using MINISOFT, so we'll explicitly run WORDPAD, and open the file.
As
   # noted at the top of this script, we 'assume' the location of
WORDPAD on
   # the users PC.
   setvar INVOKE_TEXT "run C:\Program Files\Windows
NT\Accessories\wordpad.exe !V_FTP_TARGET"
endif

# This bit does the work, causing WORDPAD to open with the requested
file
setvar INVOKE_START "![CHR(27)]"+"&oF"
echo !INVOKE_START !INVOKE_TEXT 

Hope this helps. 

-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Michael
Sent: 22 February 2010 16:43
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Cobol: Sound other than beep?

The closest I ever came to play a wav file on the HP3000 was using a US
Robotics Voice Modem. This allowed me to dial a number an play a sound
file message, and it didn't work very well. Later because of MPE
hardware compatibility issues I moved the voice modem to a Linux box,
sent the modem request from the HP3000 to the Linux box using IPC calls,
that worked very well!

In a normal HP3000 application environment you are limited to terminal
base applications, and terminals only know one sound, <cntrl-G>, or %7,
and that's it. Now with terminal emulators running on machines that can
listen and talk back to you, their is a way from the HP3000 to tell the
host machine to play a sound file. Look at QCTerm for Windows, by AICS
Research. It is still available at
http://www.aics-research.com/qcterm/index.html

Using Cobol, Basic, Fortran, SPL, C/iX, Speedware, Cognos Quick, even
perl on MPE, language is irrelevant. QCTerm has a scripting language and
similar to a web browser allows you to execute multi-media objects
(sound, video, pictures) on the client machine, from the host server
(terminal based application on the HP3000).

I still want a native GUI environment for MPE/iX:

Mike.


SUBSCRIBE HP3000-L Anonymous wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would just like to know if there is other sound we could send to 
> System to play a wav sound file other than "beep" for "Default Beep"?
>
> Thanks!
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