An open letter to Hewlett-Packard ALLBASE/NET management: While we are on the subject of PC API and various transports, I'd like to wonder *LOUDLY* about the status of Lan Workplace vis-a-vis PC API. UC Davis is a stronghold for NetWare, and as such, the TCP transport of choice (insofar as Microcomputer Services is concerned) is Lan Workplace 5.0. I have been developing a Powerbuilder-based DSS component for the last two months that used our 948 as a data source (Allbase). Our 3000 is politically unpopular around here (not IBM), and this project was to be a demonstration of the 3000's ability to deliver data to anyone anywhere. helping to secure its future (and ours, since programming IBM 3090s is a step backwards for any self-respecting HP3000 programmer). So you can imagine my frustration when Murphy reared his ugly head and swatted this quaint fantasy of distributing Allbase data to desktops all over campus. To close a long story, I have had to move the data to an old Sun running Sybase 4.2 to get off the ground, since PC API DOESN'T WORK WITH LAN WORKPLACE!!! Come on, HP, you can do better than this. Pretty please, won't you, can't you fix this problem, before people around here get it fixed in their minds that HPs can't be used for serious purposes? <<whimper>> --Jim