jonathan@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Jonathan Altman) (02/13/88)
I was wondering if anyone has, or has seen, a hypercard stack designed
to do terminal emulation, or deals with serial communications. I would
like to write a stack to work as a friendly front-end for a beastly
mainframe database program, and would prefer, if possible, not to have
to write the scripts/XCMD/XFCN's to do the serial communications
parts. Please e-mail any stacks or information about stacks you might
have that deal with this subject to me, unless it is of a general
interest. I will be glad to summarize any info I get, if anyone wants.
Jonathan M. Altman '88 jonathan@u2.dartmouth.edu
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Hanover NH 03755leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (02/16/88)
jonathan@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU(Jonathan Altman) writes in comp.sys.mac.hypercard >I was wondering if anyone has, or has seen, a hypercard stack designed >to do terminal emulation, or deals with serial communications. I would >like to write a stack to work as a friendly front-end for a beastly >mainframe database program, and would prefer, if possible, not to have >to write the scripts/XCMD/XFCN's to do the serial communications >parts. Please e-mail any stacks or information about stacks you might >have that deal with this subject to me, unless it is of a general >interest. I will be glad to summarize any info I get, if anyone wants. There was a stack that was circulating on GEnie for a while called 'HyperTerm', I believe. It was a shareware deal which included many of the common functions of a term product excpet for nonASCII file transfers. I think the author was waiting to get $$ before adding them in. I'm sure you could locate it in the GEnie/CIS/Delphi archives, or I could try to find it and mail it off to you. I also think that Apple has a stack with some basic comm XCMD's that comes with the HC devlopers package. +---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ + + Any thing I say may be taken as + + Leonard Rosenthol + fact, then again you might decide+ + President, LazerWare, inc. + that it really isn't, so you + + + never know, do you?? + + leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu + + + GEnie: MACgician + + + Delphi: MACgician + + + + + +---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;YF37) (02/16/88)
In article <8143@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU> jonathan@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Jonathan Altman) writes: >I was wondering if anyone has, or has seen, a hypercard stack designed >to do terminal emulation, or deals with serial communications. I would >like to write a stack to work as a friendly front-end for a beastly >mainframe database program, and would prefer, if possible, not to have >to write the scripts/XCMD/XFCN's to do the serial communications >parts. I've seen two version of such a stack on CompuServe, in the "go stackware" data libraries. I tried both of them, and they both crashed my Mac+ and my Mac II. I've been thinking of doing my own also, but I haven't had the time. If I get inspired, I'll post it to the net. Edward Moy Workstation Software Support Group University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 edmoy@violet.Berkeley.EDU ucbvax!violet!edmoy
lih@cunixc.columbia.edu (Andrew Lih) (02/17/88)
In article <6995@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu.UUCP () writes: >In article <8143@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU> jonathan@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Jonathan Altman) writes: >>I was wondering if anyone has, or has seen, a hypercard stack designed >>to do terminal emulation, or deals with serial communications. I would >>like to write a stack to work as a friendly front-end for a beastly >>mainframe database program, and would prefer, if possible, not to have >>to write the scripts/XCMD/XFCN's to do the serial communications >>parts. >I've been thinking of doing my own also, but I haven't had the time. If I get >inspired, I'll post it to the net. I have tried Harry Chesley's stack (I think it is him) for term emulation and it is deathly slow...yes, he wrote out all the XCMDs and XFCNs so I guess that you can use them for Serial I/O. If you read the Macintosh Today article, some dudes at Apple have already written a HyperCard front end for a mainframe, but I doubt you will see anything from them for at least half a year... =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= """"""" Andrew "Fuz" Lih lih@cunixc.columbia.edu | @ @ | Computer Consultant UI.LIH@CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU < ^ > \ - / Columbia University Center for --- Computing Activities ...rutgers!columbia!cunixc!lih =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=