Re: Interact with mainframe screen

How about a little information. Like, how does your "terminal" communicate to the "mainframe". Are we talking about an old RS-232 terminal or a dedicated terminal for some arcane mainframe or a virtual terminal running over a lan or something else?

What are you suggesting as a replacement for the terminal? A Windows box, a *nix box, the current "terminal" running a smarter editor, something else?

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Re^2: Interact with mainframe screen by Anonymous Monk on Apr 19, 2007 at 21:32 UTC
Sorry, I left out some of that information. We currently input information through (hummingbird->HostExplorer)3270 terminal emulator on our desktop. If possible I would like to automate the inputs using a perl script.	[reply]
Re^3: Interact with mainframe screen by Old_Gray_Bear (Bishop) on Apr 19, 2007 at 22:00 UTC
Ah. It's been a while since I played with Hummingbird, but I seem to recall that it has both VT100 and TN3270 APIs available. Depending on which kind of terminal the mainframe expects to be talking to, you will be able to use the 'native' API-calls to scrape the data into a character string that you can manipulate with Perl. ---- I Go Back to Sleep, Now. OGB	[reply]