Re: Oracle Text Screen Tools

In article <33e28be4.6461370_at_news.i3va.com>, George Faison <most_at_i3va.com> writes
>On Tue, 22 Jul 1997 10:11:56 -0600, mark_at_allied.avnet.com wrote:
>
>>I am looking for some sort of tool that can generate vt 420 text
>>compliant screens with Oracle support. Must run on DEC Alpha Open VMS,
>>and should support VMS Basic and/or C.
>>
>>Anybody know of anything that could do something like this ?
>>
>>The company I work for is moving from a Digital RMS file based system to
>>Oracle on VMS. We currently support 90% VT users, and 10% PC users with
>>telnet access. All screens are text based, written in VAX Basic and SMG.
>>We want to eventually move to total GUI, but managment won't hand over
>>the bucks for the PC's, so we are going to have to provide some sort of
>>interim step.
>>
>>Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
>

Forms 4.5 already supports generation for character mode for platforms supporting terminal sessions (i.e. yes for Unix, no for Windows). We are counting on this to port our Forms30 character mode app to Forms45 character mode - we can't afford to replace 1000 dumb VT's either!

Tom Cooke Received on Sun Aug 03 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST