OS stability when running filePro

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, GCC Consulting wrote:

> It seems to me that it would make more sense to move to Windows PC's and use
> the terminal emulation software programs available such as Anzio. There are
> others on the list who could recommend other emulators.

Not so! When you run a Windows version of filePro on the *client* machine, 
there is no need for, or place for, a terminal emulator. The filePro runs 
as a Windows console program; that is, it looks like a DOS application.

If you run it on a Windows server, such as 2003, you have some options as 
far as what to do for access from the clients. Here is my understanding of 
the options; anyone please correct me if I am wrong:

1) Have the clients run a Terminal Services session, also known as Remote 
Desktop. This establishes a virtual graphical session into the server, 
with desktop icons, etc. In this environment you can run the console-based 
filePro. You may or may not want to run a VNC to underlie the remote 
desktop connection.

2) Run fpGI, a graphical overlay over a proprietary socket connection from 
client to server.

3) One person reported running a third party telnet daemon and client.

I have experimented with a possible fourth option, using the Microsoft 
supplied telnet daemon on the Windows 2003 box, and accessing it using 
either the Windows telnet client or Anzio (in an unreleased version). 
There seem to be problems with this approach, which I have not fully 
identified.

Note that all of these have significant differences from the traditional 
character-based-Unix-with-telnet-client environment. Besides scripting 
differences mentioned earlier, there could be differences in printing, for 
instance.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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