crom@cuuxb.ATT.COM (Netnews Administrator) (02/05/89)
We currently have an application that runs on a group of centralized unix machines that users access via dumb terminals over dialup lines. What we'd like to do is allow the users to run the screen data entry and data verification portion of the software on their DOS PC and have the PC networked over a serial line to the centralized unix machines where the actual work is done. We are a unix shop and so have little DOS experience. We'd like recommendations for: 1) A screen development package with C libraries similar to what comes with database packages, but instead of accessing a database we'd like to use our own functions to access the remote machines. Someone once mentioned Vitamin C. (Is that good for you?) 2) A serial line networking package with application libraries so that we can write an application for the PC that communicates in real time to the remote machines. I've read a little about the ka9q package that implements the tcp/ip protocols over a packet radio network. I believe that it also works with SLIP. Something similar to that is what I think we need. 3) Where to get a good version of C++ for the PC. Thanks in advance.
todd@stiatl.UUCP (Todd Merriman) (02/07/89)
In article <2453@cuuxb.ATT.COM> att!spock!jcd (Jack Dixon) writes: > 1) A screen development package with C libraries similar to what > comes with database packages, but instead of accessing a database > we'd like to use our own functions to access the remote machines. > Someone once mentioned Vitamin C. (Is that good for you?) > Vitamin C Creative Programming Consultants Windows for Data, Windows for C Vermont Creative Software JYACC Screen Manager PANEL