On Tuesday, September 23, 1997 9:23 AM, Klaus Franke
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> He wants to do a filetransfer from a job on the 3000 to a pc or a novell
> fileserver.

Klaus,

There are several solutions which do not require FTP, etc.

The first is one of the popular termulators out there.  Both MiniSoft's
MS92 and Reflection can perform file transfers, both have a scripting
language which can initiate these transfers, and both have scripting
sequences which can be executed via a COBOL DISPLAY statement (or
reasonable facsimile in other languages) to initiate a script either via
OLE or DDE in Windows.  This is useful when the need is to be used from
within an already running program.  (Of course, these can be done manually
within the terminal emulator as well).

The (in program) scenario would look like this (in general):

- Script is written to perform the file transfer and tested.
- Code is added to the HP3000-based app to "DISPLAY" the appropriate
sequence to load and execute the script (again, both MS92 for Windows and
Reflection have this capability).
- Attach this code to a function key on the "terminal" - when pressed, the
file transfer is initiated by the code written in the HP3000 app.

We used this in an application to transfer data to Microsoft Word, to
populate a library of generic word-processing documents.  These form
letters were generated "on the fly", and the COBOL program was used to
start MS Word, package the data, send it to Word, and populate the
document.  The document was then presented to the user, and could be
modified and printed immediately.


A second way to do this is using a (relatively old) PC version of DSCOPY
which came with NS 2.1 (the latest version of I know of) - the TCP/IP
stack which HP marketed before turning everything over to WRQ (and their
"3000 Connection").  This can copy a file from the 3000 to the PC with
relative ease, but is also an MS-DOS based app, and not a Windows app.  It
will run under Windows (even 95), but not elegantly.

Other tools, which would satisfy the "not a lot of money" requirement do
require that the user be on at least 5.0.  These tools, such as Samba/iX
would be very useful, but will not operate on 4.0, unfortunately.

Hopefully, this will be helpful.

Best Regards,
Joe Geiser

Joe Geiser, CSI Business Solutions LLC
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