TE/2

One very unique funct in TE/2 was the ability to initiate concurrent listener tasks on a modem in line, max 32, where a task can wait and will signal if a particular pattern comes in (i.e. LineWaitMulti, 120, "ZMODEM INPUT" then also an extra LineWaitMulti, 120, "XMODEM". When the reply pattern arrives (say XMODEM) that signal is triggered & baranced to and all the other concurrent waits are terminated.

ZOC has this function. - It looks like ZOC has taken over rom TE/2 as TE/2 was designed to run on OS/2 & the author basicallypulled out in 1999 & 1999 is the year this ZOC program seems to have been born.

This looks like a big win for us. I will know better at work tomorrow when I try the commands for reading input lines. At first glance it seems it supports input data that can consist of ctl chars. ZOC has ^[ for ESC which FileLInk3000 didn't. ZOC has many other codes that get translated to ctl-chars (just like TE/2).

Once again many thanks. This project is a big issue at work as many millions of $ of orders reach us via several old OS/2 boxes. These have been failing at a rate that has cause us great grief esp between the Business pillar and IT.

I have plans to migrate the whole thing to interface to web services (have developed the prototyped & demoed it to IT 2 weeks back). We have 2 each of these OS/2 servers in each state.

Cheers & thanks

Doug Marker

#2 - Just looked at the MINIHOST example in ZOC & right there was a very similar protocol to the one we are using. ZOC explicitly allows waiting for ctl chars to be input. In the Minihost script it waits for a ^H from the login user while our protocol is a wait for a ^[ (esc).

It seems that our TE/2 driver script will not require anywhere near as much effort to convert to ZOC as it was going to be for FileLink3000.

#2 Also checked Kermit95 - its scripting language is Unix like & it would not readily marry with our many REXX processing scripts called by TE/2. But ZOC uses Enterprise Alternatives version of REXX & this is what I have been using for some years. ZOC looks so much like TE/2 that it can't be a coincidence. This is certainly out lucky day.