| Title: | PATHWORKS V5 for DOS and Windows |
| Notice: | OS2LAN::OS2:[PUBLIC] is alive again, but not what it used to be |
| Moderator: | RANGER::CURLESS |
| Created: | Fri Feb 11 1994 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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Thought this would be a relatively easy question, but either I'm blind
or the VT320 scripting documentation's confusing (you be the judge)...
I've got a cusotmer who wants to take input from a user, append some
text to that input, then send that along to the (VMS) host. Something
like this
READ: some_input
SET: a_variable some_input+" and then some text"
DISPLAY: a_variable<CR><LF>
Possible at all? Any on-line samples I could look at?
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| 7362.1 | No free-form input! | JAMIN::WASSER | John A. Wasser | Thu Mar 13 1997 09:26 | 16 |
> customer wants to take input from a user, append some text to that input, > then send that along to the (VMS) host. Unless there have been some extensions since V5.0, the only things you can do with a variable are set its value and use it in a "case" statement. This SEVERELY restricts the type of user input. The user can pick from a limited set of options and THAT IS ALL. The scripting language for VT320 (and SETHOST) was a hold-over from the failed "Rainbow Office Workstation" project that tried to put a fancy front-end on All-In-One. It was deliberately crippled because the project manager did not want it to look like a "programming language" so as not to scare off the non-technical user. | |||||
| 7362.2 | VMSNET::S_VORE | Smile - Mickey's Watching! | Thu Mar 13 1997 09:49 | 5 | |
Thanks, John - that's what I was beginning to think based on my
reading. I'll head off to take a look at PowerTerm's scripting; it
looks at least a little more robust.
-Steven
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