Re: [U2] How do you determine terminal emulator?

2010-03-12 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <19552-1268350334-97...@sneakemail.com>, Tony Gravagno <3xk547...@sneakemail.com> writes It does. ViaDuct was my favorite emulator in the early 90's until I found wIntegrate, and that was my favorite until the later 90's when I found AccuTerm. :) All support scripting. The problem i

Re: [U2] How do you determine terminal emulator?

2010-03-11 Thread Bob Rasmussen
I'd like to offer a different approach to the problem. Besides determining emulator, it can potentially determine location, which printer to use, and more. The trick is to pass an environment variable to the host, at login time. The emulator can be configured to send whatever is needed. This is

Re: [U2] How do you determine terminal emulator?

2010-03-11 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: Beverly Wilson > I'm not even certain that Viaduct supports login > scripting. It probably does, but I've not looked at it > for much beyond data import/export scripting. It does. ViaDuct was my favorite emulator in the early 90's until I found wIntegrate, and that was my favorite until

Re: [U2] How do you determine terminal emulator?

2010-03-11 Thread Bill Haskett
Beverly: AccuTerm "Internet Explorer" edition maintains a single configuration and script file. Users download and install the base AccuTerm applicatioin when connecting to a web server. All users use the same configuration and login script (or whatever script you run), so there's no nee

Re: [U2] How do you determine terminal emulator?

2010-03-11 Thread Beverly Wilson
Thanks for your input, Tony. I almost always find your responses to the list to be thought-provoking. I think for this project (converting greenbar reports to screen or exports) I'm going to go with the "hard way" approach. The "easy way" is interesting, but much more complex to set up than th

Re: [U2] How do you determine terminal emulator?

2010-03-10 Thread Beverly Wilson
Thanks for your input Bill. Not quite the approach that I was thinking of, but it is certainly food for thought. Of course, I'd also have to make the term types wIntVP and ViaVP. :-) At 3/9/2010 05:29 PM, Bill Haskett wrote: "...based on the emulator (e.g. wIntWy60, AtWy60, VDWy60, etc)."

Re: [U2] How do you determine terminal emulator?

2010-03-10 Thread Beverly Wilson
inal Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Beverly Wilson Sent: Wednesday, 10 March 2010 07:40 To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] How do you determine terminal emulator? Hi folks, I'm wondering if anyone on the list can t

Re: [U2] How do you determine terminal emulator?

2010-03-10 Thread Dave Greer
M To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] How do you determine terminal emulator? In message <6.0.1.1.1.20100309151717.05cc2...@12.167.143.145>, Beverly Wilson writes >Hi folks, > >I'm wondering if anyone on the list can tell me what I can do to >determine whether a user i

Re: [U2] How do you determine terminal emulator?

2010-03-10 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <8363-1268176878-166...@sneakemail.com>, Tony Gravagno <3xk547...@sneakemail.com> writes You can try to do this the hard way and face lack of success, or you can do this the easy way, which is perhaps not as elegant but it's a fast and effectice solution. The hard way: try to come up

Re: [U2] How do you determine terminal emulator?

2010-03-09 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <6.0.1.1.1.20100309151717.05cc2...@12.167.143.145>, Beverly Wilson writes Hi folks, I'm wondering if anyone on the list can tell me what I can do to determine whether a user is using the Viaduct terminal emulator via UniBasic? Can you configure Viaduct? It should have some sort o

Re: [U2] How do you determine terminal emulator?

2010-03-09 Thread Tony Gravagno
You can try to do this the hard way and face lack of success, or you can do this the easy way, which is perhaps not as elegant but it's a fast and effectice solution. The hard way: try to come up with scripts that will return useful information from specific emulators without messing up any other

Re: [U2] How do you determine terminal emulator?

2010-03-09 Thread Bill Haskett
"...based on the emulator (e.g. wIntWy60, AtWy60, VDWy60, etc)." Of course "viaWy60" may be a more appropriate prefix for a ViaDuct terminal. :-) Bill Bill Haskett said the following on 3/9/2010 2:23 PM: Bev: What I've always done, in all versions of PICK, is define separate term-types b

Re: [U2] How do you determine terminal emulator?

2010-03-09 Thread Bill Haskett
Bev: What I've always done, in all versions of PICK, is define separate term-types based on the emulator (e.g. wIntWy60, AtWy60, VDWy60, etc). Then define the term-type upon user login then you can query the terminal type via the standard SYSTEM(7) function (I use this function in one of

Re: [U2] How do you determine terminal emulator?

2010-03-09 Thread Boydell, Stuart
; ',3): 007 PRINT ' running under DOS version ':FIELD(REPLY,' ',4) 008 PRINT ' running under Windows version ':FIELD(REPLY,' ',5) -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Beha

[U2] How do you determine terminal emulator?

2010-03-09 Thread Beverly Wilson
Hi folks, I'm wondering if anyone on the list can tell me what I can do to determine whether a user is using the Viaduct terminal emulator via UniBasic? We have some code that can tell if the emulator is Accuterm or Wintegrate, but I haven't been able to come up with a command string that wou